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Long-Wavelength Ultraviolet Photoproduction of Amino Acids on the Primitive Earth
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Amino acids are produced under possible primitive Earth conditions by irradiation of gas mixtures with long-wavelength ultraviolet light, representing the most abundant useful energy source for prebiological organic synthesis. Hydrogen sulfide is the initial photon acceptor in this work; superthermal atomic hydrogen photodissociation products appear to initiate reactions leading to amino acid synthesis with an overall quantum yield on the order of 5 × 10 -5
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- Authors
- Sagan, C., & Khare, B. N.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1971-07-30
- Volume
- 173
- Issue
- 3995
- Pages
- 417-420
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1976836799
- Cited by
- 258
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 16.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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