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The Influence of Various Cations on the Catalytic Properties of Clays

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Journal J Mol Evol
Specialty Biochemistry
Date 1978 Jun 20
PMID 27641
Citations 5
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Abstract

Polymerization of alanine adenylate in the presence of various clays in their Na form gave increasing degrees of polymerization in the following order: montmorillonite less than nontronite less than hectorite. With montmorillonite, presaturated with different cations the order was: Mg less Ca less than Fe less than Al less than Na. From all these clays, hectorite was the only one to enable also some polymerization of lysine.

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