The role of stochastic models in interpreting the origins of biological chirality

Symmetry

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 767-798

  Lente, Gábor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Absolute asymmetric synthesis; Biological chirality; Chiral fluctuations; Enantiomeric excess distributions; Soai reaction; Stochastic kinetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957314724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20738994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/sym2020767     Document Type: Review

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