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New Insight into the Source of Biomolecular Homochirality: An Extraterrestrial Origin for Molecules of Life?
First published: 24 February 1999
Citations: 53
Abstract
Circular polarized light in space might be responsible for the fact that amino acids isolated from meteorites are not racemic. For example, 1 has been found with an enantiomeric excess of up to 10.4%. Such radiation has now been observed for the first time.
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