Re: left-handed non-biological amino acids

Glenn Morton (grmorton@psyberlink.net)
Thu, 06 Mar 1997 22:57:50 -0600

At 09:21 AM 3/6/97 -0500, Bill Hamilton wrote:
>Glenn Morton wrote:
>
>>amino acid d/l ratio in Murchison meteorite
>> GLU ASP PRO LEU ALA
>>H2O .322 .202 .342 .166 .682
>>H2O .30 .30 .30 nd .60
>>HCl .176 .126 .105 .029 .307
>
>I know that the column headings are abbreviations for four amino acids, and
>I suspect d/l means right/left. But what do the row headings mean? Yeah,
>I know they're the symbols for water (twice) and hydrochloric acid, but
>what do they mean, and is the same label on two rows an error?

They are different methods of preparing the material for analysis. That is
about the extent of my chemistry knowledge. :-)

glenn

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