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Heyns and Pavel1 reported on the pyrolytic decomposition of glycine in which small amounts ot other amino-acids (alanine, aspartic acid, α-aminobutyric acid) and other carboxylic acids (fumaric acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid) were found. The formation of hydrogen cyanide was also confirmed in the reaction mixture.
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HARADA, K. Formation of Amino-acids by Thermal Decomposition of Formamide—Oligomerization of Hydrogen Cyanide. Nature 214, 479–480 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214479a0
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