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Experiments with gas mixtures intended to simulate primeval atmospheres have yielded a great many types of chemicals of biological interest. It has now been shown that metal porphyrin complexes are commonly produced in these experiments.
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HODGSON, G., BAKER, B. Porphyrin Abiogenesis from Pyrrole and Formaldehyde under Simulated Geochemical Conditions. Nature 216, 29–32 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216029a0
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