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Aug 1976
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976orli....7..175s&link_type=abstract
Origins of Life, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp.175-181
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Attention is called to the photodynamic and thermodynamic properties of Periodic Group IIb elements, most notably Hg, as they relate to ultra-violet sensitization in organic chemical reactions. The energy levels of 61 P 1 and 63 P 1 resonance states and the high vapor pressure (>10-3 mm) of the metal at temperatures as low as 293 K bring Hg with the range of bond dissociation energies in most organic molecules and many inorganics. These capabilities considered together with recent evidence for Hg emission as a regular part of volcanic and geothermal processes provide the basis for our proposal that Hg-sensitized ultraviolet photo-reactions may have played a significant part in abiogenetic organic synthesis on the primative earth.
Siegel Barbara Z.
Siegel Sanford M.
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