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Conditions of Occurrence for Primeval Processes of Transphosphorylations

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Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life

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Model reactions of the phosphate group transfer through hydrolysis-condensation processes without enzymic catalysts are studied in dilute aqueous solutions. Tripolyphosphate and acetylphosphate are used as energy and phosphate donors to perform syntheses of pyrophosphate. Results are discussed in terms of the variation versus pH of the overall standard free enthalpy change.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Energétique Biochimique, Université Paris Val de Marne, 94000, Creteil, France

    Elisabeth Etaix & René Buvet

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  1. Elisabeth Etaix
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  1. Departments of Biophysical Sciences and Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    J. Oró

  2. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    J. Oró

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, California, USA

    S. L. Miller

  4. Laboratory of Chemical Evolution, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

    C. Ponnamperuma

  5. NASA, Washington, D.C, USA

    R. S. Young (Head of Planetary Biology) (Head of Planetary Biology)

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Etaix, E., Buvet, R. (1974). Conditions of Occurrence for Primeval Processes of Transphosphorylations. In: Oró, J., Miller, S.L., Ponnamperuma, C., Young, R.S. (eds) Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2282-8_20

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