Noyes HP, Bonner WA, Tomlin JA. On the origin of biological chirality via natural beta-decay.
ORIGINS OF LIFE 1977;
8:21-3. [PMID:
896189 DOI:
10.1007/bf00930935]
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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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