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“Formaldehyde is their most plausible prebiotic precursor,61 due to its capacity to yield a variety of carbohydrates in a one-pot process known as the formose reaction, discovered by Butlerow in 1861.62”
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- Cleaves II, H. J.
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- Precambrian Research
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- Elsevier BV
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- 2008-07-30
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- 164
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- 111-118
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- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
- Keywords
- formaldehyde, origin of life, ribose synthesis, Strecker synthesis, amino acid synthesis, sugar synthesis, hydrothermal environments, photolysis, extraterrestrial organic matter
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