doi: 10.1007/BF00930935.
On the origin of biological chirality via natural beta-decay
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On the origin of biological chirality via natural beta-decay
Orig Life.
1977 Apr.
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 14C in pre-biotic molecules, offers a plausible hypothesis for the origin of biomolecular handedness.
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