Supernovae, Neutrinos and the Chirality of Amino Acids

A mechanism for creating an enantioenrichment in the amino acids, the building blocks of the proteins, that involves global selection of one handedness by interactions between the amino acids and neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae is defined. The chiral selection involves the dependence of the...

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Main Authors: Toshitaka Kajino, Richard N. Boyd, Takashi Onaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-05-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/12/6/3432/