New Developments in the Origins of the Homochirality of Biologically Relevant Molecules

Perhaps it is the intrinsic chirality at the level of elementary particles that accounts for why relevant biomolecules (proteinogenic amino acids and sugar units in the nucleic acids) are homochiral. This is suggested by new results concerning the difference in energy of enantiomers resulting from p...

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Published inAngewandte Chemie (International ed.) Vol. 39; no. 22; pp. 4033 - 4036
Main Authors Buschmann, Helmut, Thede, Richard, Heller, Detlef
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH 17.11.2000
WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH
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asymmetric autocatalysis
chirality
homochirality
parity violation
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Summary:Perhaps it is the intrinsic chirality at the level of elementary particles that accounts for why relevant biomolecules (proteinogenic amino acids and sugar units in the nucleic acids) are homochiral. This is suggested by new results concerning the difference in energy of enantiomers resulting from parity violation of electroweak interactions and the finding of asymmetric autocatalysis as an efficient model for the amplification of small enantiomeric excesses.
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The authors would like to thank the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.
ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/1521-3773(20001117)39:22<4033::AID-ANIE4033>3.0.CO;2-2