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Racemization of Valine by Impact-Induced Heating

Racemization of Valine by Impact-Induced Heating

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Racemization of Valine by Impact-Induced Heating

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Full title

Racemization of Valine by Impact-Induced Heating

Publisher

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Journal title

Origins of life and evolution of biospheres, 2018-03, Vol.48 (1), p.131-139

Language

English

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Publisher

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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Contents

Homochirality plays an important role in all living organisms but its origin remains unclear. It also remains unclear whether such chiral molecules survived terrestrial heavy impact events. Impacts of extraterrestrial objects on early oceans were frequent and could have affected the chirality of oceanic amino acids when such amino acids accumulated...

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Full title

Racemization of Valine by Impact-Induced Heating

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1896897286

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1896897286

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ISSN

0169-6149

E-ISSN

1573-0875

DOI

10.1007/s11084-017-9539-0

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