On the origins of life’s homochirality: Inducing enantiomeric excess with spin-polarized electrons
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2204765119
Abstract: Significance Essential biomolecules, like amino acids and sugars, are chiral; they exist in mirror symmetrical pairs named enantiomers. However, modern life selectively uses only one of the enantiomers. The origin of this chiral symmetry breaking… read more here.
Keywords: life homochirality; spin polarized; origins life; polarized electrons ... See more keywords