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New Insight into the Source of Biomolecular Homochirality: An Extraterrestrial Origin for Molecules of Life?
Author(s) -
Podlech Joachim
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(19990215)38:4<477::aid-anie477>3.0.co;2-o
Subject(s) - homochirality , meteorite , astrobiology , extraterrestrial life , abiogenesis , enantiomer , molecule , physics , chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry
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.