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. 1978 Jun 20;11(2):101-7.
doi: 10.1007/BF01733886.

The influence of various cations on the catalytic properties of clays

M Paecht-Horowitz

The influence of various cations on the catalytic properties of clays

M Paecht-Horowitz. J Mol Evol. .

Abstract

Polymerization of alanine adenylate in the presence of various clays in their Na form gave increasing degrees of polymerization in the following order: montmorillonite less than nontronite less than hectorite. With montmorillonite, presaturated with different cations the order was: Mg less Ca less than Fe less than Al less than Na. From all these clays, hectorite was the only one to enable also some polymerization of lysine.

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