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Is Cyanoacetylene Prebiotic?

Name: Is Cyanoacetylene Prebiotic?
Creator: Leslie E. Orgel
Keywords: 0301 basic medicine, 0303 health sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, Cyanides, Acetylene, 3. Good health

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jun 2002Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere, volume 32, pages 279-281 (issn: 0169-6149, eissn: 1573-0875,

Authors: Leslie E. Orgel;

doi: 10.1023/a:1016509009433

pmid: 12227432

Is Cyanoacetylene Prebiotic?

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Abstract

Cyanoacetylene is an earlier intermediate in a proposed prebiotic synthesis of cytosine, while cyanoacetaldehyde is a later intermediate. There is no scientific basis for the claim that cyanoacetaldehyde is more plausibly prebiotic than cyanoacetylene in this context.

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Salk Institute for Biological Studies
United States

Keywords

Cyanides, Acetylene

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