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Advances in BioChirality

Book1999

Edited by:

G. Pályi, C. Zucchi and L. Caglioti

Advances in BioChirality

Book1999

 

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Edited by:

G. Pályi, C. Zucchi and L. Caglioti

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Chirality is a fundamental, persistent, but often overlooked feature of all living organisms on the molecular level as well as on the macroscopic scale. The high degree of preferen ... read full description

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    Chapter 2 - Dimensions of Biological Homochirality

    Gyula Pályi, Claudia Zucchi and Luciano Caglioti

    Pages 3-12

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    Chapter 3 - Chirality Algebra and the Right–Left Classification Problem

    R.B. King

    Pages 13-34

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    Chapter 4 - Theory of Biological Homochirality: Chirality, Symmetry Deficiency, and Electron-Cloud Holography in the Shape Analysis of Biomolecules

    Paul G. Mezey

    Pages 35-46

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    Chapter 5 - On the Biological Advantage of Chirality

    Gideon Gilat

    Pages 47-68

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    Chapter 6 - Origin of Biological Homochirality: Directed Selection or Random Motion?

    Vladik A. Avetisov

    Pages 69-83

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    Chapter 7 - Possible Mechanisms for Spontaneous Production of Enantiomeric Excess

    David Z. Lippmann and Julio Dix

    Pages 85-97

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    Chapter 8 - Search for the Origin of Homochirality of Biomolecules

    Lajos Keszthelyi

    Pages 99-103

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    Chapter 9 - The Role of Homochirality in Evolution

    Zhao Nansheng

    Pages 105-114

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    Chapter 10 - A New Method for Testing Models of Prebiotic Peptide Assembly

    Melanie Bengtson and Eric D. Edstrom

    Pages 115-123

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    Chapter 11 - Asymmetric Autocatalysis and Biomolecular Chirality

    Kenso Soai and Takanori Shibata

    Pages 125-136

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    Chapter 12 - Left-Right Asymmetry in Animal Embryogenesis

    Michael Levin

    Pages 137-152

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    Chapter 13 - Evolutionary Origin of Asymmetry in Early Metazoan Animals

    Jerzy Dzik

    Pages 153-190

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    Chapter 14 - Chirality in Charophytes: Stability and Evolution from 400 Million Years to Present

    Ingeborg Soulié-Märsche

    Pages 191-207

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    Chapter 15 - Application of Amino Acid Racemization in Fossil Pleistocene Vertebrate and Invertebrate Analysis. Preservation of Proteins and Amino Acids

    Trinidad de Torres

    Pages 209-229

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    Chapter 16 - Biomarker Reaction Kinetics during Kerogen Microscale Pyrolysis

    Geoffrey D. Abbott and Andrew W. Stott

    Pages 231-246

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    Chapter 17 - Aspartic Acid Racemization in the Dentine of Bears (Ursus etruscus G. Cuvier, Ursus prearctos, Boule, Ursus deningeri von Reichenau and Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller-Heinroth). Tooth Dentine Amino Acids Versus Mollusca Amino Acids

    T. de Torres, J.F. Llamas, ... P. García-Alonso

    Pages 247-256

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    Chapter 18 - The Abiotic Generation of Homochirality on Saturn’s Moon Titan

    J.I. Lunine, J. Beauchamp, ... E. Nikolaev

    Pages 257-270

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    Chapter 19 - d-Amino Acids in Nature

    Yoko Nagata

    Pages 271-283

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    Chapter 20 - Racemization-induced Defolding and Aggregation of Segments of β-amyloid Protein: An Early Step in the Formation of Amyloid Plaques

    Zs. Majer, E. Láng, ... M. Hollósi

    Pages 285-295

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    Chapter 21 - Occurrence and Biosynthesis of Animal Peptides Containing a d-Amino Acid

    Günther Kreil

    Pages 297-304

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    Chapter 22 - Spontaneous d-Aspartic Acid Formation at Specific Sites of Lens Protein During Aging

    Noriko Fujii, Yuko Momose and Mitsuhiko Akaboshi

    Pages 305-313

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    Chapter 23 - Asymmetric Phenomena in Studies of Encapsulation and Assembly

    Julius Rebek

    Pages 315-324

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    Chapter 24 - Self-assembly of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polyesters and their Stereoselective Interaction with Liposomes of DMPC

    Mercedes Pérez-Mendez, José Fayos and C. Reyes Mateo

    Pages 325-334

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    Chapter 25 - Transferring Chirality in Homogeneous Catalysis

    Paul S. Pregosin

    Pages 335-345

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    Chapter 26 - Chiral Genetics of Drugs and Related Compounds

    Béla Noszál

    Pages 347-360

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    Chapter 27 - Chiroptical Properties of (S)-(–) Methyl Glycolate-d1

    Arrigo Forni, Irene Moretti, ... Giovanni Torre

    Pages 361-366

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    Chapter 28 - Experimental Evidences for Parity Violating Energy Differences Between Enantiomers

    Andrea Szabó-Nagy and L. Keszthelyi

    Pages 367-376

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    Chapter 29 - On the Stabilization of Natural l-α-Amino Acids and d-Sugars via Parity-Violating Effects

    Riccardo Zanasi, Paolo Lazzeretti, ... Alessandro Soncini

    Pages 377-385

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    Chapter 30 - Radiodecomposition of d,l-Aspartic Acid by Tritium-β-Rays

    Mitsuhiko Akaboshi, Kenichi Kawai, ... Noriko Fujii

    Pages 387-392

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    Subject Index

    Pages 393-407

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Description

Chirality is a fundamental, persistent, but often overlooked feature of all living organisms on the molecular level as well as on the macroscopic scale. The high degree of preference for only one of two possible mirror image forms in Nature, often called biological homochirality is a puzzling, and not yet fully understood, phenomenon.

This book covers biological homochirality from an interdisciplinary approach - contributions range from synthetic chemists, theoretical topologists and physicists, from palaeontologists and biologists to space scientists and representatives of the pharmaceutical and materials industries.

Topics covered include - theory of biochirality, origins of biochirality, autocatalysis with amplification of chirality, macroscopic (present) biochirality, fossil records of chiral organisms - paleochirality, extraterrestrial origin of chirality, exceptions to the rule of biological homochirality, D-amino acids, chemical transfer of chirality, PV effects, and polarised radiation chemistry.

Chirality is a fundamental, persistent, but often overlooked feature of all living organisms on the molecular level as well as on the macroscopic scale. The high degree of preference for only one of two possible mirror image forms in Nature, often called biological homochirality is a puzzling, and not yet fully understood, phenomenon.

This book covers biological homochirality from an interdisciplinary approach - contributions range from synthetic chemists, theoretical topologists and physicists, from palaeontologists and biologists to space scientists and representatives of the pharmaceutical and materials industries.

Topics covered include - theory of biochirality, origins of biochirality, autocatalysis with amplification of chirality, macroscopic (present) biochirality, fossil records of chiral organisms - paleochirality, extraterrestrial origin of chirality, exceptions to the rule of biological homochirality, D-amino acids, chemical transfer of chirality, PV effects, and polarised radiation chemistry.

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978-0-08-043404-9

Language

English

Published

1999

Copyright

Copyright © 1999 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

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Elsevier Science

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Editors

G. Pályi

Department of Chemistry, University of Modena, Modena, Italy

C. Zucchi

Department of Chemistry, University of Modena, Modena, Italy

L. Caglioti

“La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy