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Formation of supramolecular assemblies and liquid crystals by purine nucleobases and cyanuric acid in water: implications for the possible origins of RNA

Published:2016 Issue:30 Volume:18 Page:20091-20096
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Li C.¹²³⁴⁵,Cafferty B. J.¹²³⁴,Karunakaran S. C.¹²³⁴,Schuster G. B.¹²³⁴,Hud N. V.¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

2. Georgia Institute of Technology

3. Atlanta

4. USA

5. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering

Abstract

The free nucleobases and mononucleotides of RNA do not form Watson–Crick base pairs in water, a fact that presents several challenges for the prebiotic synthesis of RNA.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/CP/C6CP03047E

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