On the origin of terrestrial homochirality for nucleosides and amino acids

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

Volumn 106, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 9144-9146

  Breslow, Ronald ^a   Cheng, Zhan Ling ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiral amplification; Murchison meteorite; Transamination; Water solubilities

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; AMINO ACID; CYTIDINE; GUANOSINE; NUCLEOSIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; URIDINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYSTALLIZATION; ENANTIOMER; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MURCHISON METEORITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY;

AMINO ACIDS; AUSTRALIA; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; METEOROIDS; NUCLEOSIDES; RIBOSE; SOLUBILITY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 67249108374     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904350106     Document Type: Article

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