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Complete chiral symmetry breaking of an amino acid derivative directed by circularly polarized light

Wim L. Noorduin, Arno A. C. Bode, Maarten W. van der Meijden, Hugo Meekes, A.F. van Etteger, W.J.P. van Enckevort, Peter C. M. Christianen, Bernard Kaptein, Richard M. Kellogg, Th. Rasing,

Nature Chemistry · 2009 · 240 citations · 22 references

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Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry +15

Enantiomeric Excesses in Meteoritic Amino Acids

John R. Cronin, Sandra Pizzarello · Science · 1997 · 874 citations

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Chemistry +15

Chiral Symmetry Breaking During Crystallization: Complete Chiral Purity Induced by Nonlinear Autocatalysis and Recycling

Cristóbal Viedma · Physical Review Letters · 2005 · 809 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Physics +16

Circular Polarization in Star- Formation Regions: Implications for Biomolecular Homochirality

Jeremy Bailey, A. Chrysostomou, J. H. Hough et al. · Science · 1998 · 590 citations

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +13

Enantioselective magnetochiral photochemistry

G. L. J. A. Rikken, E. Raupach · Nature · 2000 · 580 citations