What is the most complex organic molecule synthesized from all non organic components?
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- 3+ months ago by RdaggettPA
- Topics:
- organic, complex, biochemistry
Responses (1)
For clarification, 'organic' is defined to mean "based on carbon". Some words you get to redefine and some you don't.
Living beings use some very complicated molecules, and only carbon has the bond strength to hold them together. That is why there is no life based on silicon, even though it has almost identical chemical forms in small molecules.
So you are looking for the largest molecule of waste produced by living beings. As far as I know, there has not been any such investigation.
An over simplification. Many people do not consider CO2 or CH4 as organic even thought they include carbon. In addition both compounds occur in deep space and are not likely to be of natural origin. For clarification lets use the definition of "organic" compounds as those typically produced by living organisms and inorganic as those typically appearing without the need for living organisms.
What I want to know is how far toward the complexity of the chemistry living organisms can get in the lab without using living things to produce them.