Possible Scenarios for Homochirality on Earth

In 1978, Fred Hoyle proposed that interstellar comets carrying several viruses landed on Earth as part of the panspermia hypotheses. With respect to life, the origin of homochirality on Earth has been the greatest mystery because life cannot exist without molecular asymmetry. Many scientists have pr...

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Main Author: Fujiki, Michiya (auth)
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Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
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520 |a In 1978, Fred Hoyle proposed that interstellar comets carrying several viruses landed on Earth as part of the panspermia hypotheses. With respect to life, the origin of homochirality on Earth has been the greatest mystery because life cannot exist without molecular asymmetry. Many scientists have proposed several possible hypotheses to answer this long-standing L-D question. Previously, Martin Gardner raised the question about mirror symmetry and broken mirror symmetry in terms of the homochirality question in his monographs (1964 and 1990). Possible scenarios for the L-D issue can be categorized into (i) Earth and exoterrestrial origins, (ii) by-chance and necessity mechanisms, and (iii) mirror-symmetrical and non-mirror-symmetrical forces as physical and chemical origins. These scenarios should involve further great amplification mechanisms, enabling a pure L- or D-world. 
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653 |a weak neutral current 
653 |a homochiral and heterochiral aggregates 
653 |a vortex 
653 |a neutrinos 
653 |a Soai reaction 
653 |a Viedma ripening effect 
653 |a nucleus-molecular coupling 
653 |a absolute asymmetric synthesis 
653 |a circular dichroism 
653 |a enantiomer self-disproportionation 
653 |a magmatic flow 
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653 |a Z0 boson 
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653 |a deracemization 
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653 |a super-high-velocity impact 
653 |a homochirality 
653 |a chirogenesis 
653 |a heat capacity 
653 |a tunneling 
653 |a prebiotic 
653 |a Salam hypothesis 
653 |a tilt-chirality 
653 |a self-assembly 
653 |a racemic field 
653 |a triethylenediamine (DABCO) molecules 
653 |a environmental chirality 
653 |a bioorganic homochirality 
653 |a polymer 
653 |a enantioselective reaction 
653 |a two-fold helix 
653 |a origin of life 
653 |a biological homochirality 
653 |a parity violation in the weak interaction 
653 |a amino acids 
653 |a multi-point approximation 
653 |a magnetism 
653 |a C1- and C2-symmetric catalysts 
653 |a spin-polarized lepton 
653 |a lipid 
653 |a chiral field (memory) 
653 |a Wallach's rule 
653 |a asymmetric autocatalysis 
653 |a plasma reactor 
653 |a circularly polarized photon 
653 |a asymmetric reaction 
653 |a racemate 
653 |a enantiomorphism 
653 |a symmetry breaking 
653 |a ?-strand 
653 |a chirality 
653 |a circularly polarized light 
653 |a circularly polarized luminescence 
653 |a autocatalysis 
653 |a amino acid handedness 
653 |a asymmetric synthesis 
653 |a precision measurement 
653 |a nepheline 
653 |a chiral separation 
653 |a parity violation 
653 |a achiral stationary phase 
653 |a genesis of life chirality 
653 |a high dimensional chirality 
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