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Effect of temperature on the adsorption of adenine
S J Sowerby1, C M Mörth, N G Holm
1Department of Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract:
Equilibrium adsorption isotherms for the purine base adenine on the surface of graphite crystals have been obtained at 30, 40, 50, and 60 degrees C by frontal analysis using water as a mobile phase. These data were fitted to the Langmuir isotherm model and interpreted in terms of the well-characterized adsorbate monolayer structure. A van't Hoff plot was used to estimate the adsorption enthalpy, -delta H degree which we determined to be 20 kJ mol-1. The susceptibility of nucleic acid bases to aqueous-phase hydrolysis may have been a limiting feature for their inclusion in the primordial genetic architecture; our results suggest that the effects of temperature and the presence of inorganic solids must also be included when assessing the prebiotic availability of adenine.
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