Photochirogenesis: Photochemical Models on the Origin of Biomolecular Homochirality

Symmetry

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1055-1080

  Meinert, Cornelia ^a   Filippi, Jean Jacques ^a   Nahon, Laurent ^b   Hoffmann, Søren V ^c   d'Hendecourt, Louis ^d   de Marcellus, Pierre ^d   Bredehöft, Jan Hendrik ^e   Thiemann, Wolfram H P ^e   Meierhenrich, Uwe J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Asymmetric photolysis; Enantioselective photosynthesis; Homochirality; Origin of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959740818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20738994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/sym2021055     Document Type: Review

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