Wet-Dry Cycling Delays the Gelation of Hyperbranched Polyesters: Implications to the Origin of Life
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Polyesterification
3.2. Size-Exclusion Chromatography (SEC)
3.3. Mass Spectrometry
3.4. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Oligomer | m/z (+Na) | Normalized Abundance in 8D Sample 2 | Normalized Abundance in 8W Sample 2 |
---|---|---|---|
G2C2 1 | 537.2 | 1 | 1 |
G3C2 | 611.3 | 2.50 | 1.87 |
G4C2 * | 667.3 | 0.71 | 0.27 |
G4C2 | 685.3 | 2.93 | 1.88 |
G5C2 | 759.4 | 1.78 | 0.94 |
G4C3 | 859.4 | 1.22 | 1.14 |
G5C3 * | 915.4 | 0.96 | 0.41 |
G5C3 | 933.4 | 2.18 | 1.21 |
G6C3 * | 989.4 | 0.98 | 0.32 |
G6C3 | 1007.4 | 1.63 | 0.85 |
G7C3 | 1081.5 | 0.82 | 0.30 |
G5C4 | 1107.5 | 0.47 | 0.37 |
G6C4 | 1181.5 | 0.82 | 0.31 |
G7C4 * | 1237.5 | 0.54 | 0.14 |
G7C4 | 1255.6 | 1.01 | 0.52 |
G8C4 | 1329.6 | 0.67 | 0.29 |
Series/Cycles | DRY | D | W | Initial | WET |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 4H:9.93H (1C:2.0G) | ||||
1 | 4H 1:9.89H (1C:2.0G) | 4H:9.89H (1C:2.0G) | 4H:9.81H (1C:2.0G) | ||
2 | 4H:10.14H (1C:2.0G) | 4H:9.94H (1C:2.0G) | 4H:9.92H (1C:2.0G) | ||
4 | 4H:14.03H (1C:2.8G) | 4H:10.20H (1C:2.0G) | 4H:10.28H (1C:2.1G) | ||
8 | 4H:11.99H (1C:2.4G) | 4H:10.37H (1C:2.1G) | 4H:9.74H (1C:1.9G) |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleMamajanov, Irena. 2019. "Wet-Dry Cycling Delays the Gelation of Hyperbranched Polyesters: Implications to the Origin of Life" Life 9, no. 3: 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/life9030056