Advances in BioChiralityElsevier, 08.09.1999 - 407 Seiten Chirality is a fundamental, persistent, but often overlooked feature of all living organisms on the molecular level as well as on the macroscopic scale. The high degree of preference for only one of two possible mirror image forms in Nature, often called biological homochirality is a puzzling, and not yet fully understood, phenomenon. This book covers biological homochirality from an interdisciplinary approach - contributions range from synthetic chemists, theoretical topologists and physicists, from palaeontologists and biologists to space scientists and representatives of the pharmaceutical and materials industries. Topics covered include - theory of biochirality, origins of biochirality, autocatalysis with amplification of chirality, macroscopic (present) biochirality, fossil records of chiral organisms - paleochirality, extraterrestrial origin of chirality, exceptions to the rule of biological homochirality, D-amino acids, chemical transfer of chirality, PV effects, and polarised radiation chemistry. |
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Chapter 5 On the Biological Advantage of Chirality | 47 |
Directed Selection or Random Motion? | 69 |
Chapter 7 Possible Mechanisms for Spontaneous Production of Enantiomeric Excess | 85 |
Chapter 8 Search for the Origin of Homochirality of Biomolecules | 99 |
Chapter 17 Aspartic Acid Racemization in the Dentine of Bears Ursus etruscus G Cuvier Ursus prearctos Boule Ursus deningeri von Reichenau and U... | 247 |
Chapter 18 The Abiotic Generation of Homochirality on Saturns Moon Titan | 257 |
Chapter 19 DAmino Acids in Nature | 271 |
An Early Step in the Formation of Amyloid Plaques | 285 |
Chapter 21 Occurrence and Biosynthesis of Animal Peptides Containing a DAmino Acid | 297 |
Chapter 22 Spontaneous DAspartic Acid Formation at Specific Sites of Lens Protein During Aging | 305 |
Chapter 23 Asymmetric Phenomena in Studies of Encapsulation and Assembly | 315 |
Chapter 24 Selfassembly of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polyesters and their Stereoselective Interaction with Liposomes of DMPC | 325 |
Chapter 9 The Role of Homochirality in Evolution | 105 |
Chapter 10 A New Method for Testing Models of Prebiotic Peptide Assembly | 115 |
Chapter 11 Asymmetric Autocatalysis and Biomolecular Chirality | 125 |
Chapter 12 LeftRight Asymmetry in Animal Embryogenesis | 137 |
Chapter 13 Evolutionary Origin of Asymmetry in Early Metazoans | 153 |
Stability and Evolution from 400 Million Years to Present | 191 |
Chapter 15 Application of Amino Acid Racemization in Fossil Pleistocene Vertebrate and Invertebrate Analysis Preservation of Proteins and Amino ... | 209 |
Chapter 16 Biomarker Reaction Kinetics during Kerogen Microscale Pyrolysis | 231 |
Chapter 25 Transferring Chirality in Homogeneous Catalysis | 335 |
Chapter 26 Chiral Genetics of Drugs and Related Compounds | 347 |
Chapter 27 Chiroptical Properties of S Methyl Glycolated1 | 361 |
Chapter 28 Experimental Evidences for Parity Violating Energy Differences Between Enantiomers | 367 |
Chapter 29 On the Stabilization of Natural LαAmino Acids and DSugars via ParityViolating Effects | 377 |
Chapter 30 Radiodecomposition of DLAspartic Acid by TritiumßRays | 387 |
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