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. 1996 Feb;26(1):7-13.
doi: 10.1007/BF01808156.

Phosphorylation of glyceric acid in aqueous solution using trimetaphosphate

V Kolb  1 , L E Orgel
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Phosphorylation of glyceric acid in aqueous solution using trimetaphosphate

V Kolb et al. Orig Life Evol Biosph. 1996 Feb.

Abstract

The phosphorylation of glyceric acid is an interesting prebiotic reaction because it converts a simple, potentially prebiotic organic molecule into phosphate derivatives that are central to carbohydrate metabolism. We find that 0.05 M glyceric acid in the presence of 0.5 M trimetaphosphate in alkaline solution gives a mixture of 2- and 3-phosphoglyceric acids in combined yields of up to 40%.

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