JTW's Evolutionary Origins - Author: Wachtershauser, Gunter
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Pyrite-Surface Bonding
[pp. 93]
"Processes of carbon dioxide fixation lead primarily to carboxylate groups. This means that the organic products of a hypothetical pyrite-pulled carbon dioxide fixation become bonded onto the pyrite surface in the process of being formed on that surface (in statu nascendi)."
- Wachtershauser, Gunter
- Groundworks for an Evolutionary Biochemistry: The Iron-Sulphur World
- Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology: Vol. 58, No. 2, pp.85-202
- 1992
- [Pubmed]
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