A natural mechanism for l-homochiralization of prebiotic aminoacids

2010/05/22 by Falcon, Federico
#Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) #FOS: Biological sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1005.4142

Abstract

We propose a mechanism that explains in a simple and natural form the l-homochiralization of prebiotic aminoacids in a volume of water where a geothermal gradient exists.

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