Brian wrote:
>What Matsuno did here was very interesting. He wanted to model
>not just the high temperature (he went up to 350 C) and pressure
>in the vent, but also the quenching that occurs when the water
>leaves the vent. What he did then was cycle between a high temp/
>pressure reactor and a cooling chamber. With repeated cycling
>he was able to convert amino acids into oligopeptides. He was
>further able to synthesize hexaglicine from oligoglycine.
>This would indicate, to me anyway, that the ball is back in
>Miller's court.
I'm not so sure. Exactly what amino acids were condensed into
oligopeptides? And didn't they get anything larger than six glycines
linked together?
Mike
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