Trivalent phosphorus and phosphines as components of biochemistry in anoxic environments
Phosphorus is an essential element for all life on Earth, yet trivalent phosphorus (e.g., in phosphines) appears to be almost completely absent from biology. Instead phosphorus is utilized by life almost exclusively as phosphate, apart from a small contingent of other pentavalent phosphorus compound...
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Mary Ann Liebert Inc,
2020-04-14T14:09:52Z.
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