Chemical structure of a prebiotic analog of adenosine
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 20 (1) , 43-48
Abstract
Upon heating a dry mixture of ribose and adenine, condensation products are formed. They were identified as isomers of N6-ribosyl-adenine (Fuller, Sanchez and Orgel, 1972). Due to the current interest in nucleotide analogs as potential constituents of primitive RNA catalysts, the products were further characterized by mass spectroscopy and proton NMR. Our results fully substantiate the previous proposals.Keywords
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