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Chirality as a problem of biochemical physics

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Molecular chiral asymmetry, created in the biosphere during biological evolution, is unambiguously realized in today’s world at the genetic level and in biosynthesis. According to our hypothesis, origination of molecular chiral asymmetry is associated with fractionation of enantiomers of chiral compounds that abiogenously evolved at the ocean-atmosphere nonequilibrium boundary during origination of the predecessors of living cells.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Tverdislov, L.V. Yakovenko, A.A. Zhavoronkov, 2007, published in Russkii Khimicheskii Zhurnal, 2007, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 13–22.

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Tverdislov, V.A., Yakovenko, L.V. & Zhavoronkov, A.A. Chirality as a problem of biochemical physics. Russ J Gen Chem 77, 1994–2005 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070363207110291

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