Origin of biological homochirality (open question)

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the cosmochemistry subtree

Why life uses L-amino-acids and D-sugars exclusively is unresolved — Frank-mechanism (Frank 1953 autocatalytic asymmetric amplification), parity-violation hypothesis (weak interaction enantio-discrimination), Vester-Ulbricht meteoritic…

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