Chirality Amplification - The Accumulation Principle Revisited

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Dec 1999

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Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, v. 29, Issue 6, p. 615-624 (1999).

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The chirality amplification mechanism proposed by Yamagata in 1966, relying on an Accumulation Principle which involved the parity violating energy difference (1 + ɛ) presumed to be operative at each step in the formation of a homochiral biopolymer, is briefly surveyed historically. The Accumulation Principle is then examined analytically and found to be incapable of producing a unique homochiral polymer in any realistic polymerization process. The extension of the Accumulation Principle to crystallizations which afford enantiomorphic crystals is also scrutinized and found to be misapplied and invalid.

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