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Cyanamide Mediated Synthesis Under Plausible Primitive Earth Conditions. VI. The Synthesis of Glycerol and Glycerophosphates

Cyanamide Mediated Synthesis Under Plausible Primitive Earth Conditions. VI. The Synthesis of Glycerol and Glycerophosphates

D E Epps, D W Nooner, J Eichberg, E Sherwood, J Oró

J Mol Evol. 1979 Dec;14(4):235-41.

PMID: 537103

Abstract:

The formation of glycerol occurs when a solution of DL-glyceraldehyde is heated in the presence of hydrogen sulfide at room temperature. DL-glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyacetone treated with hydrazine, as well as DL-glyceraldehyde incubated with formaldehyde are also partially converted to glycerol. The yields of the above reactions are from approximately 1% to about 3%. The formation of glycerophosphates occurs when glycerol is heated with ammonium dihydrogen phosphate and either urea or cyanamide. The yield of glycerophosphates is about 30%, most of which is sn-glycero-1 (3)-phosphate. These findings indicate that glycerol and sn-glycero-3-phosphate, which are moieties of glycerolipids, could have been formed under conditions which may have prevailed on the primitive Earth.

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AP591593	DL-Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate solution		591-59-3	Price

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