Chirality is a fundamental, persistent, but often overlooked
feature of all living organisms on the molecular level as well as
on the macroscopic scale. The high degree of preference for only
one of two possible mirror image forms in Nature, often called
biological homochirality is a puzzling, and not yet fully
understood, phenomenon.
This book covers biological homochirality from an
interdisciplinary approach - contributions range from synthetic
chemists, theoretical topologists and physicists, from
palaeontologists and biologists to space scientists and
representatives of the pharmaceutical and materials
industries.
Topics covered include -
theory of biochirality,
origins of biochirality,
autocatalysis with amplification of chirality,
macroscopic (present) biochirality,
fossil records of chiral organisms - paleochirality,
extraterrestrial origin of chirality,
exceptions to the rule of biological homochirality, D-amino
acids,
chemical transfer of chirality,
P effects, and
polarised radiation chemistry.
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