Screen LibraryThe origin of chirality in the molecules of life：a revision from awareness to the current theories and perspectives of this unsolved problem
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Royal Society of Chemistry,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 150 p.: col. ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0854041567 9780854041565 |
| Index Number: | Q5 |
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Q5 Q7 |
| Call Number: | Q7/G952 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction and historical background; Classification of the theories of the origin of biomolecular homochirality; The concept of chirality; Chiral physical forces; Mechanisms of Amplification; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking; Outside Earth: Meteorites and Comets; Other local deterministic theories; Intrinsic Assymetry of the Universe: The Arrow of Space-Time and the unequal occurrence of matter and antimatter. |