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Back Cover: A Plausible Simultaneous Synthesis of Amino Acids and Simple Peptides on the Primordial Earth (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 31/2014)
Author(s) -
Parker Eric T.,
Zhou Manshui,
Burton Aaron S.,
Glavin Daniel P.,
Dworkin Jason P.,
Krishnamurthy Ramanarayanan,
Fernández Facundo M.,
Bada Jeffrey L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201406157
Subject(s) - cyanamide , amino acid , polymerization , chemistry , cover (algebra) , stereochemistry , combinatorial chemistry , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , biochemistry , polymer , mechanical engineering , engineering
Stanley Miller′s cyanamide experiment went unreported for over 50 years, but was recently explored to study cyanamide‐mediated biomolecule polymerization under early Earth conditions. In their Communication on page 8132 ff., F. M. Fernández, J. L. Bada et al. show that the dimerization of cyanamide in the presence of amino acids and intermediates in the Strecker synthesis of amino acids yields significant levels of dipeptides, which provides evidence that cyanamide enhances polymerization under simulated prebiotic environments. (Background image provided by Ron Miller.)