title: Uv - induced synthesis of amino acids from aqueous sterilized solution of ammonium formate and ammonia under hetrogeneous conditions.
abstract: Irradiation of sterilized aqueous solution of ammonium formate and ammonia with UV light in the presence and or absence of certain inorganic sensitizers for 25 hrs. gave six ninhydrin positive products in appreciable amounts. Out of the six products observed fiver were characterized as lysine, serine, glutemic acid, n-amino butyric acid and leucine. The sensitizing effect of additives on ammonium formate was observed in the order; uranium oxide > ammonium formate > ferric oxide > arsenic oxide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, K.U. Naini Tal, U.P., India .
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bisht
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Bisht