Abstract Experimental evidence that longitudinally polarized electrons having the handedness characteristic of terrestrial beta-decay electrons preferentially remove D-leucine from a racemic mixture, coupled with the probable presence $ of^{14} $C in pre-biotic molecules, offers a plausible hypothesis for the origin of biomolecular handedness.
On the origin of biological chirality via natural beta-decay
Origins of life ; 8 , 1
1977
Article (Journal)
English
Local classification TIB: | 535/3908/4290 | |
BKL: | 44.71 Verkehrsmedizin |
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