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Science 24 November 1972:
Vol. 178. no. 4063, pp. 859 - 860
DOI: 10.1126/science.178.4063.859
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Prebiotic Synthesis of Methionine

James E. Van Trump 1 and Stanley L. Miller 1

1 Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92037

Methionine has been shown to be a product of the action of a spark discharge on a simulated primitive earth atmosphere containing CH4, N2, NH3, H2O, and H2S or CH3SH. Acrolein has also been shown to be a product of the discharge and is proposed as an intermediate in the prebiotic synthesis of methionine and of glutamic acid, homocysteine, homoserine, and agr,ggr-diaminobutyric acid.


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