Nucleoside N-phosphoamino acids were synthesized through Atherton-Todd reaction of nucleoside H-phosphonate with amino acids, and their structures were confirmed by NMR and ESI-MS. After nucleoside N-phosphoamino acid was incubated in anhydrous methanol at 40 degrees C for 72 h, di- to tetra-peptide derivatives were detected by ESI-MS, and their structures were further identified by multistage mass spectrometry. These and previously published studies in aqueous solution suggest that nucleoside N-phosphoamino acids could have been prebiotic precursors of oligopeptides.
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