Mirror symmetry breaking at the molecular level

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 11435-11442

  Avetisov, Vladik ^a   Goldanskii, Vitalii ^a  

^a SEMENOV INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

enantioselectivity; homochirality; molecular evolution; origin of life; prebiotic chemistry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOGENESIS; DNA; ENZYMES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLY DA-DT; POLY T; RNA; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029958175     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.21.11435     Document Type: Article

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