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. 1977 Apr;8(1):21-3.
doi: 10.1007/BF00930935.

On the origin of biological chirality via natural beta-decay

H P Noyes, W A Bonner, J A Tomlin

On the origin of biological chirality via natural beta-decay

H P Noyes et al. 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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