Title:Homochirality Origin in Nature: Possible Versions
VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 1
Author(s):Valerii A. Pavlov and Evgenii I. Klabunovskii
Affiliation:N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 47 Leninsky prosp., Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation.
Keywords:Asymmetric in vitro and in vivo reactions, enantioselectivity, homochirality.
Abstract:Homochirality and related problems have been reviewed. Relative probability of different versions of homochirality arising
were estimated on the example of processes, synthesis of organic compounds in space, asymmetric photolysis under circularly polarized
light, synthesis of optically active compounds as a result of parity violation, magnetochiral dichroism, chiral amplification, optical active
amino acids synthesis and theirs isotope ratios in meteorites, and some other determinate and indeterminate processes. It has been estimated
handedness of moving objects as source of chirality. Possible contributions of these processes in homochirality origin in nature
have been evaluated. The view is justified that homochirality (and life) origin may be not an accidental event.
