On the Chiral Homogeneity of Nature: From Atoms to Small Molecules

Metastability in Supersaturated Solution and Transition towards Chirality in the Crystallization of NaClO3

(2011) Zoubir El-Hachemi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Putting the Mechanism of the Soai Reaction to the Test: DFT Study of the Role of Aldehyde and Dialkylzinc Structure

(2011) Gianfranco Ercolani et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The Driving Mechanism Behind Attrition-Enhanced Deracemization

(2010) Wim L. Noorduin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A simple explanation of the enhancement or depletion of the enantiomeric excess in the partial sublimation of enantiomerically enriched amino acids

(2010) Aurélien Bellec et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Asymmetric amplification in amino acidsublimation involving racemic compound to conglomerate conversion

(2010) Cristóbal Viedma et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Enantioenrichment by Iterative Retro-Aldol/Aldol Reaction Catalyzed by an Achiral or Racemic Base

(2010) Angelika M. Flock et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

An Autocatalytic Cycle Model of Asymmetric Amplification and Mirror-Symmetry Breaking in the Soai Reaction

(2010) Jean-Claude Micheau et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Progress toward the first observation of parity violation in chiral molecules by high-resolution laser spectroscopy

(2010) Benoît Darquié et al.   CHIRALITY

Steady chirality conversion by grinding crystals—Supercritical and subcritical bifurcations

(2010) Makio Uwaha   JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH

Grinding-induced homochirality in crystal growth

(2010) Yukio Saito et al.   JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH

Mathematical Models of the Homochiralisation of Crystals by Grinding

(2010) Jonathan A. D. Wattis   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

High resolution spectroscopy of methyltrioxorhenium: towards the observation of parity violation in chiral molecules

(2010) Clara Stoeffler et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Analysis of parity violation in chiral molecules

(2010) Radovan Bast et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Chiral polymerization: symmetry breaking and entropy production in closed systems

(2010) Celia Blanco et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

L-amino acids catalyze the formation of an excess of D-glyceraldehyde, and thus of other D sugars, under credible prebiotic conditions

(2010) R. Breslow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Homochirality and chemical evolution: new vistas and reflections on recent models

(2010) Martín Ávalos et al.   TETRAHEDRON-ASYMMETRY

Racemic β-Sheets as Templates of Relevance to the Origin of Homochirality of Peptides: Lessons from Crystal Chemistry

(2009) Isabelle Weissbuch et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

From Ostwald Ripening to Single Chirality

(2009) Wim L. Noorduin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Frank Model and Spontaneous Emergence of Chirality in Closed Systems

(2009) Joaquim Crusats et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Spontaneous Transition toward Chirality in the NaClO3Crystallization in Boiling Solutions

(2009) Zoubir El-Hachemi et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Mechanism of Chirality Conversion by Grinding Crystals: Ostwald Ripening vs Crystallization of Chiral Clusters

(2009) Makio Uwaha et al.   JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Electroweak Parity-Violating Energy Shifts of Amino Acids: The “Conformation Problem”

(2009) A. J. MacDermott et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Evaluation of Coupled Perturbed and Density Functional Methods of Computing the Parity-Violating Energy Difference between Enantiomers

(2009) A. J. MacDermott et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Parity-Violating Energy Shifts of Murchison L-Amino Acids are Consistent with an Electroweak Origin of Meteorite L-Enantiomeric Excesses

(2009) A. J. MacDermott et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Spontaneous Mirror Symmetry Breaking in the Aldol Reaction and its Potential Relevance in Prebiotic Chemistry

(2009) Michael Mauksch et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Dual Role of Hydrophobic Racemic Thioesters of α-Amino Acids in the Generation of Isotactic Peptides and Co-peptides in Water; Implications for the Origin of Homochirality

(2009) Roni A. Illos et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Thermodynamic mechanism for solution phase chiral amplification via a lattice model

(2009) T. G. Lombardo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the origin of terrestrial homochirality for nucleosides and amino acids

(2009) R. Breslow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asymmetric Autocatalysis Triggered by Carbon Isotope (13C/12C) Chirality

(2009) T. Kawasaki et al.   SCIENCE

Sublime Arguments: Rethinking the Generation of Homochirality under Prebiotic Conditions

(2008) Pedro Cintas   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Racemic β-Sheets as Templates for the Generation of Homochiral (Isotactic) Peptides from Aqueous Solutions of (RS)-Valine or -LeucineN-Carboxy- anhydrides: Relevance to Biochirogenesis

(2008) Irina Rubinstein et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Highly Efficient Electron Beam Induced Enantioselective Surface Chemistry

(2008) C. Fleming et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Evolution of Solid Phase Homochirality for a Proteinogenic Amino Acid

(2008) Cristobal Viedma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chiral Crystal Growth under Grinding

(2008) Yukio Saito et al.   JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Simple Models for Chirality Conversion of Crystals and Molecules by Grinding

(2008) Makio Uwaha   JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Did life grind to a start?

(2008) J. Michael McBride et al.   NATURE

Punctuated Chirality

(2008) Marcelo Gleiser et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Chiral-Selective Chemistry Induced by Spin-Polarized Secondary Electrons from a Magnetic Substrate

(2008) R. A. Rosenberg et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS