Is Cu 2+ complexation with ascorbic acid associated with bacterial H2 in low pH aqueous media?

Robert Michael Davidson @Robert_Davidson

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Your paper makes me ask whether the H2 production is occurring nonenzymatically, such as for example pre-biotically (primordially).

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