Effect of chiral helical force field on molecular helical enantiomers and possible origin of biomolecular homochirality

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 125-128

  He, Y J ^a,b,d   Qi, F ^b   Qi, S C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031851513     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(98)90105-0     Document Type: Article

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