Nitrogen Deposition Via N+ Implantation:Implications for Primordial Amino Acids Synthesis Revisited

摘要

In this paper amino acids synthesis in aqueous solution induced by ion implantation,which was possibly ubiquitous on primitive Earth,is investigated.As a discharge using a graphite rod as the anode under a nitrogen atmosphere was performed against ammonia water,it was found that three kinds of amino acids were produced.They were glycine,serine and alanine.By introducing ion implantation into the carboxylate solution,ammonia and amino acids were also formed via nitrogen deposition/fixation.Another isotopic experiment showed that both OH and H radicals played a crucial role in the arc-discharge-promoted reactions in aqueous solution Therefore,we believe that the impact of ions in the original atmospheric conditions might have functioned as a promoter in the chemical origin and evolution of life.