polymerization on the Rocks: β-amino Acids and Arginine
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 28 (3) , 245-257
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006576213220
Abstract
We have studied the accumulation of long oligomers of β-amino acids on the surface of minerals using the ‘polymerization on the rocks’ protocol. We find that long oligopeptides of β-glutamic acid...This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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