Cover Picture: Darwin's Warm Little Pond: A One-Pot Reaction for Prebiotic Phosphorylation and the Mobilization of Phosphate from Minerals in a Urea-Based Solvent (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42/2016)
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- 作者：Dr. Bradley Burcar ; Prof. Dr. Matthew Pasek ; Dr. Maheen Gull ; Dr. Brian J. Cafferty ; Prof. Dr. Francisco Velasco ; Prof. Dr. Nicholas V. Hud and Dr. Cé ; sar Menor-Salvá ; n
- 刊名：Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：October 10, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：55
- 期：42
- 页码：12915
- 全文大小：525K
- ISSN：1521-3773
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In 1871, Charles Darwin envisioned the spontaneous formation of biological molecules “in some warm little pond with all sort of ammonia and phosphoric salts”. C. Menor-Salván, N. V. Hud, and co-workers tested the feasibility of this prebiotic scenario as described in their Communication on p://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201606239" rel="references:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201606239">page 13249 ff. When a solution containing ammonium formate, urea, and epsomite (the magnesium sulfate crystals shown) was heated, a eutectic was produced that liberated phosphate from insoluble apatite, leading to nucleoside phosphorylation.