Supernovae, Neutrinos and the Chirality of Amino Acids

A mechanism for creating an enantioenrichment in the amino acids, the building blocks of the proteins, that involves global selection of one handedness by interactions between the amino acids and neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae is defined. The chiral selection involves the dependence of the...

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Main Authors: Boyd, Richard N., Kajino, Toshitaka, Onaka, Takashi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3131570/