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Formation of Energy Rich Phosphate in Fenton’s Reaction

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Origin of Life

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Mechanism and origin of the ubiquitous biological phosphorylation stays obscure since the discovery of ATP by Lohmann in 1929. Asking whether the extreme reactivity of radical intermediates could not explain such reactions, we found that up to 30% of aqueous inorganic phosphate is bound into an energy-rich oxidation product of 2-methylimidazole by oxidation with H2O2 or O2 using Fenton’s reagent. These results emphasize, that coupled energy and group transfer and self-organization requires open systems (“bioids”) driven by an adequate energy source like redox or photo-reactions, and that transfer of all, molecules (in chemical reactions), energy and information are complementary and inseparable aspects of a generalized Darwinian evolution i.e. of accumulation of information over time in such systems.

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  1. Chemical Institute, Veterinary School, Hannover, Germany

    Oemer Saygin & Peter Decker

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  1. Department of Organic Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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Saygin, O., Decker, P. (1981). Formation of Energy Rich Phosphate in Fenton’s Reaction. In: Wolman, Y. (eds) Origin of Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8420-2_21

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