Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
Unraveling molecular flexibility in prebiotic chemistry: Tiopronin under the lens of rotational spectroscopy and quantum chemistry.
Lina Uribe, Sergio Mato, Luigi Crisci, Sofia Municio, Elena R Alonso, José L Alonso, Iker León, Vincenzo Barone
Published: 202610.1016/j.saa.2025.127250
Abstract
Tiopronin, an N-substituted glycine derivative bearing a thiol group, is structurally related to HS-peptides, species of increasing interest in prebiotic chemistry. These thiol-terminated peptides, plausibly formed through abiotic dry-down reactions…
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