Origin of homochirality on Earth: experimental and theoretical investigations
Chirality is the property of objects, including molecules, which are not superimposable on their materialized mirror image. Chiral molecules are omnipresent in living organisms and the constituents of biological macromolecules (proteins and nucleic acids) are chiral. Amino-acids (constituting protei...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | fr |
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Universite Libre de Bruxelles
2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210362 |