Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking in the aldol reaction and its potential relevance in prebiotic chemistry

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-91

  Mauksch, Michael ^a   Wei, Shengwei ^a   Freund, Matthias ^a   Zamfir, Alexandru ^a   Tsogoeva, Svetlana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute asymmetric synthesis; Aldol reaction; Formose reaction; Homochirality; Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; CARBOHYDRATE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMMETRY;

3-HYDROXYBUTANAL; ACETONE; ALDEHYDE; ALDOL; CARBOHYDRATE; FORMOSE SUGARS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GLUCONEOGENESIS; STEREOISOMERISM;

ACETONE; ALDEHYDES; BIOGENESIS; CARBOHYDRATES; CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; GLUCONEOGENESIS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77949381508     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-009-9177-2     Document Type: Article

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