Amino acids and the asymmetry of life : caught in the act of formation /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Springer,
[2008]
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| Series: | Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.