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Energy Threshold for Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Molecular Self-Replication

17 May 2019, Version 1
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Abstract

We have determined the energy required for symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in the Soai autocatalytic reaction. This work examines the likelihood that parity violation energy difference of enantiomers is implicated in the origin of chiral symmetry breaking and highlights the challenges inherent in a search for a prebiotically plausible version of Soai autocatalysis.

Keywords

autocatalysis
asymmetric amplification
homochirality
kinetic modeling

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Energy threshold for chiral symmetry breaking in molecular self-replication [opens in a new tab]
Neil A. Hawbaker, Donna G. Blackmond journal article
Nature Chemistry , Volume 11, Issue 10
Online publication date: Sep 23, 2019

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DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv.8141789.v1
D O I: 10.26434/chemrxiv.8141789.v1 [opens in a new tab]

Funding

Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life (SCOL 287625).

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