Abstract
Conditions can be created in which inorganic phosphates act as phosphorylating agents. Such reactions may have occurred in prebiotic chemical processes.
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- JOSEPH RABINOWITZ
- , SHERWOOD CHANG
- & CYRIL PONNAMPERUMA
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