Prebiotic Homochirality as a Critical Phenomenon

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2006-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601399v1

Orig.Life.Evol.Biosph.36:501-505,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 Pages, 1 Figure, In Press: Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Scientific paper

10.1007/s11084-006-9030-9

The development of prebiotic homochirality on early-Earth or another planetary platform may be viewed as a critical phenomenon. It is shown, in the context of spatio-temporal polymerization reaction networks, that environmental effects -- be them temperature surges or other external disruptions -- may destroy any net chirality previously produced. In order to understand the emergence of prebiotic homochirality it is important to model the coupling of polymerization reaction networks to different planetary environments.

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