Mirror symmetry breaking at the molecular level.

نویسندگان

  • V Avetisov
  • V Goldanskii
چکیده

Reasoning from two basic principles of molecular physics, P invariance of electromagnetic interaction and the second law of thermodynamics, one would conclude that mirror symmetry retained in the world of chiral molecules. This inference is fully consistent with what is observed in inorganic nature. However, in the bioorganic world, the reverse is true. Mirror symmetry there is definitely broken. Is it possible to account for this phenomenon without going beyond conventional concepts of the kinetics of enantioselective processes? This study is an attempt to survey all existing hypotheses containing this phenomenon.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

دوره 93 21  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1996