Assessing molecular chirality with twisted light. Comment on "Photochirogenesis: Photochemical models on the absolute asymmetric formation of amino acids in interstellar space" by Uwe J. Meierhenrich et al.

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 335-336

  Cintas, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ANIMAL; ASTROBIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MICROCLIMATE; NOTE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES;

EID: 80455164570     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.08.006     Document Type: Note

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