Energetics and Kinetics of the Prebiotic Synthesis of Simple Organic Acids and Amino Acids with the FES-H2S/FES2 Redox Couple as Reductant
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 29 (1) , 5-32
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006558802113
Abstract
The thermodynamics of the FeS-H2S/FeS2 redox couple and a select number of reactions critical to the synthesis of simple carboxylic acids and amino acids have been evaluated as a function of...This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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