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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 136, Issue 10, Pages 3720-3723Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja410886c
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In the formose reaction, formaldehyde is converted to glycolaldehyde, its dimer, under credible prebiotic conditions. Breslow proposed a mechanism for the process in 1959, but recent studies by Benner showed that it was wrong in detail. Our present studies clarify the mechanism, which involves the original Breslow intermediates but some different connecting steps.
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