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Dimers and trimers of adenosine monophosphate(AMP) were synthesized from AMP in environmentssimulating hot vents on the sea floor of the primitiveEarth. The simulated environments were made in the flowreactor, in which an aqueous solution of reactants wascirculated from the hot to the cold region repeatedly. Theoligomerization proceeded most significantly when the hotreaction solution at about 110 °C was abruptly ejected into the cold environment maintained at about 0 °C.
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Ogasawara, H., Yoshida, A., Imai, Ei. et al. Synthesizing Oligomers from Monomeric Nucleotides in Simulated Hydrothermal Environments. Orig Life Evol Biosph 30, 519–526 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026539708173
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