Large enantiomeric excesses in primitive meteorites and the diverse effects of water in cosmochemical evolution

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

Volumn 109, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 11949-11954

  Pizzarello, Sandra ^a   Schrader, Devin L ^b   Monroe, Adam A ^a   Lauretta, Dante S ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic molecular evolution; Clays; Primitive asteroids; Solar ices

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MINERAL; SUGAR ALCOHOL; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION; DIASTEREOISOMER; ENANTIOMER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIZATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; METEOROIDS; SUGAR ALCOHOLS; WATER;

EID: 84864352490     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204865109     Document Type: Article

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