The Role of Self-Assembled Monolayers of the Purine and Pyrimidine Bases in the Emergence of Life
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 28 (3) , 283-310
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006570726326
Abstract
The experimental evidence for the spontaneous formation and structure determination of two-dimensional monolayers of the purine and pyrimidine bases is examined. The plausibility of such structures...Keywords
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