Chiral symmetry breaking during the self-assembly of monolayers from achiral purine molecules

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 419-424

  Sowerby, Stephen J ^a   Heckl, Wolfgang M ^b   Petersen, George B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiral symmetry breaking; Molecular self assembly; Origin of life; Purine Bases; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Two dimensional arrays

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GRAPHITE; MOLYBDIC ACID; PURINE DERIVATIVE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHIRALITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENANTIOMER; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0029861380     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02337512     Document Type: Article

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