Amplification of enantiomeric concentrations under credible prebiotic conditions

Ronald Breslow; Mindy S. Levine

doi:10.1073/pnas.0605863103

Amplification of enantiomeric concentrations under credible prebiotic conditions

Ronald Breslow, Mindy S. Levine

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Abstract

Solutions with as little as 1% enantiomeric excess (ee) of D- or L-phenylalanine are amplified to 90% ee (a 95/5 ratio) by two successive evaporations to precipitate the racemate. Such a process on the prebiotic earth could lead to a mechanism by which meteoritic chiral α-alkyl amino acids could form solutions with high ee values that were needed for the beginning of biology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	12979-12980
Number of pages	2
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	103
Issue number	35
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605863103
State	Published - 29 Aug 2006
Externally published	Yes

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Amino acids
Crystallization
Transamination

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