Reprint

Possible Scenarios for Homochirality on Earth

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November 2019
318 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03921-722-9 (Paperback)
  • ISBN978-3-03921-723-6 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Possible Scenarios for Homochirality on Earth that was published in

Biology & Life Sciences
Chemistry & Materials Science
Computer Science & Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Summary

In 1978, Fred Hoyle proposed that interstellar comets carrying several viruses landed on Earth as part of the panspermia hypotheses. With respect to life, the origin of homochirality on Earth has been the greatest mystery because life cannot exist without molecular asymmetry. Many scientists have proposed several possible hypotheses to answer this long-standing L-D question. Previously, Martin Gardner raised the question about mirror symmetry and broken mirror symmetry in terms of the homochirality question in his monographs (1964 and 1990). Possible scenarios for the L-D issue can be categorized into (i) Earth and exoterrestrial origins, (ii) by-chance and necessity mechanisms, and (iii) mirror-symmetrical and non-mirror-symmetrical forces as physical and chemical origins. These scenarios should involve further great amplification mechanisms, enabling a pure L- or D-world.

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Keywords
chirogenesis; enantiomorphism; nepheline; magmatic flow; etch figures; origin of life; biological homochirality; deracemization; super-high-velocity impact; plasma reactor; absolute asymmetric synthesis; amino acids; origin of life; amino acid handedness; nucleus–molecular coupling; chirality; circularly polarized luminescence; circular dichroism; symmetry breaking; parity violation; weak neutral current; tunneling; Z0 boson; homochirality; precision measurement; homochirality; circularly polarized light; asymmetric reaction; polymer; β-strand; hidden chirality; two-fold helix; multi-point approximation; tilt-chirality; high dimensional chirality; spin polarized electrons; homochirality; magnetism; prebiotic; environmental chirality; C1- and C2-symmetric catalysts; chiral field (memory); racemic field; Viedma ripening effect; Wallach’s rule; heat capacity; metal-organic framework; triethylenediamine (DABCO) molecules; racemate; Salam hypothesis; homochirality; parity violation; neutrinos; gravitation; enantiomer self-disproportionation; SDE; achiral stationary phase; homochiral and heterochiral aggregates; chiral separation; chirality; genesis of life chirality; asymmetric autocatalysis; homochirality; chirality; asymmetric synthesis; Soai reaction; biological homochirality; enantioselective reaction; autocatalysis; origin of life; replicators; bioorganic homochirality; circularly polarized photon; spin-polarized lepton; parity violation in the weak interaction; symmetry breaking; assemblies; supramolecular chirality; homochirality; self-assembly; vortex; lipid; supramolecular assembly; symmetry breaking; homochirality

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