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THIS is a report of the formation of polyaspartic acid from asparagine1 in aqueous solution under conditions which satisfy suggested primitive terrestrial conditions2 better than thermal polycondensation3,4.
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KOVÁCS, J., NAGY (KOVÁCS), H. Polypeptide Formation from Asparagine under Hypothetically Primitive Conditions. Nature 190, 531–532 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/190531b0
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