On the origin of biological chirality via natural beta-decay
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by Springer Nature in Origins of Life
- Vol. 8 (1), 21-23
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00930935
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 of14C in pre-biotic molecules, offers a plausible hypothesis for the origin of biomolecular handedness.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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