Amino acids and the asymmetry of life : caught in the act of formation
Asymmetry (Chemistry) Exobiology Life SCIENCE sähkökirjat
Springer
2008
EISBN 9783540768852
List of symbols and abbreviations.
Tracing life's origin: from amino acids to space mission ROSETTA.
Stereochemistry for the study of the origin of life.
Minority report: life's chiral molecules of opposite handedness.
When crystals deliver chirality to life.
When parity falls: the weak nuclear interaction.
Chiral fields: light, magnetism, and chirality.
Key to the prebiotic origin of amino acids.
A new record for chiral molecules in meteorites.
The new space race: chiral molecules on comets and on Mars.
Accelerating the carousel: amplification mechanisms.
Appendix.
Tracing life's origin: from amino acids to space mission ROSETTA.
Stereochemistry for the study of the origin of life.
Minority report: life's chiral molecules of opposite handedness.
When crystals deliver chirality to life.
When parity falls: the weak nuclear interaction.
Chiral fields: light, magnetism, and chirality.
Key to the prebiotic origin of amino acids.
A new record for chiral molecules in meteorites.
The new space race: chiral molecules on comets and on Mars.
Accelerating the carousel: amplification mechanisms.
Appendix.
