After a large body of research on the synthesis
of simple organic compounds accumulated in the 19th century (see figure above), W. Löb achieved the chemical syntheses of simple amino acids such as glycine by exposing wet formamide to a silent electrical discharge and to ultraviolet light (4).
Each time the chemists add a head, body or tail to a sample of beads, they also attach
simple organic compounds called ketones containing carbon atom chains of varying lengths.
but there is a mountain of observation including a professor that did a 40 year experiment with chemicals in a freezer and showed that even FROZEN if you put the right chemicals together they will spontaneously assemble into
simple organic compounds which in turn will form larger molecules.
Bradley suggests that Lost City produces «small organic acids such as formate and acetate» and that similar vents might have produced «simple organic acids» and «even more complex fatty acids» or «at
least simple organic compounds.»
The vapor accompanying these particles was mostly water but contained trace amounts
of simple organic compounds, as well as carbon dioxide and ammonia — all ingredients important for the sustenance and even origin of life.
All of these scientific hypotheses boil down to first there was an planetary mass covered with water and providing the correct conditions for chemical reactions to create
a simple organic compound from which life was formed.
«The rover has made this detection of
simple organic compounds,» says project scientist John Grotzinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
A simpler organic compound called methylmercury is of greater concern because methyl - mercury is the form found in the flesh of fish.