Issue 11, 2004
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Chemical Communications

The quest for the chemical roots of life

Abstract

Why did Nature choose nucleic acids derived from a pentose rather than a hexose or tetrose? Nina Hall discusses Albert Eschenmoser’s work investigating the chemistry of alternative potential genetic oligomers that may throw light on the problem of how life as we know it now got started.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B401124B
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29 Apr 2004

Chem. Commun., 2004, 1247-1252

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Chem. Commun., 2004, 1247 DOI: 10.1039/B401124B

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