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Review

Сhiral and Racemic Fields Concept for Understanding of the Homochirality Origin, Asymmetric Catalysis, Chiral Superstructure Formation from Achiral Molecules, and B-Z DNA Conformational Transition

by
Valerii A. Pavlov
1,*,
Yaroslav V. Shushenachev
2 and
Sergey G. Zlotin
1
1
N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 47 Leninsky prosp., Moscow 119991, Russia
2
N. S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31 Leninsky prosp., Moscow 119991, Russia
*
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Symmetry 2019, 11(5), 649; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11050649
Submission received: 6 March 2019 / Revised: 23 April 2019 / Accepted: 23 April 2019 / Published: 8 May 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Possible Scenarios for Homochirality on Earth)
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The four most important and well-studied phenomena of mirror symmetry breaking of molecules were analyzed for the first time in terms of available common features and regularities. Mirror symmetry breaking of the primary origin of biological homochirality requires the involvement of an external chiral inductor (environmental chirality). All reviewed mirror symmetry breaking phenomena were considered from that standpoint. A concept of chiral and racemic fields was highly helpful in this analysis. A chiral gravitational field in combination with a static magnetic field (Earth’s environmental conditions) may be regarded as a hypothetical long-term chiral inductor. Experimental evidences suggest a possible effect of the environmental chiral inductor as a chiral trigger on the mirror symmetry breaking effect. Also, this effect explains a conformational transition of the right-handed double DNA helix to the left-handed double DNA helix (B-Z DNA transition) as possible DNA damage.
Keywords: environmental chirality; C1- and C2-symmetric catalysts; chiral field (memory); racemic field; Viedma ripening effect; Wallach’s rule environmental chirality; C1- and C2-symmetric catalysts; chiral field (memory); racemic field; Viedma ripening effect; Wallach’s rule

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Pavlov, V.A.; Shushenachev, Y.V.; Zlotin, S.G. Сhiral and Racemic Fields Concept for Understanding of the Homochirality Origin, Asymmetric Catalysis, Chiral Superstructure Formation from Achiral Molecules, and B-Z DNA Conformational Transition. Symmetry 2019, 11, 649. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11050649

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Pavlov VA, Shushenachev YV, Zlotin SG. Сhiral and Racemic Fields Concept for Understanding of the Homochirality Origin, Asymmetric Catalysis, Chiral Superstructure Formation from Achiral Molecules, and B-Z DNA Conformational Transition. Symmetry. 2019; 11(5):649. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11050649

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Pavlov, Valerii A., Yaroslav V. Shushenachev, and Sergey G. Zlotin. 2019. "Сhiral and Racemic Fields Concept for Understanding of the Homochirality Origin, Asymmetric Catalysis, Chiral Superstructure Formation from Achiral Molecules, and B-Z DNA Conformational Transition" Symmetry 11, no. 5: 649. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11050649

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Pavlov, V. A., Shushenachev, Y. V., & Zlotin, S. G. (2019). Сhiral and Racemic Fields Concept for Understanding of the Homochirality Origin, Asymmetric Catalysis, Chiral Superstructure Formation from Achiral Molecules, and B-Z DNA Conformational Transition. Symmetry, 11(5), 649. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11050649

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