Advances in Biochirality /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1999.
Description:	vii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Chirality -- Congresses. Biomolecules -- Congresses. Biomolecules. Chirality. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4317119

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Other authors / contributors:	Pályi, G. (Gyula), 1936- Zucchi, C. (Claudia), 1964- Caglioti, Luciano.
ISBN:	0080434045 9780080434049
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.

Table of Contents:

Selected chapter headings: Preface.
Dimensions of Biological Homochirality
Theory of Biological Homochirality: Chirality, Symmetry Deficiency, and Electron-Cloud Holography in the Shape Analysis of Biomolecules
On the Biological Advantage of Chirality
Possible Mechanisms for Spontaneous Production of Enantiomeric Excess
Search for the Origin of Homochirality of Biomolecules
The Role of Homochirality in Evolution
Asymmetric Autocatalysis and Biomolecular Chirality
Left-right Asymmetry in Animal Embryogenesis
Evolutionary Origin of Asymmetry in Early Metazoans
Application of Amino Acid Racemization in Fossil Pleistocene Vertebrate and Invertebrate Analysis. Preservation of Proteins and Amino Acids
Biomarker Reaction Kinetics during Kerogen Microscale Pyrolysis
The Abiotic Generation of Homochirality on Saturn's Moon Titan
D-Amino Acids in Nature
Racemization-induced Defolding and Aggregation of Segments of bgr;-Amyloid Protein: An Early Step in the Formation of Amyloid Plaques
Occurrence and Biosynthesis of Animal Peptides Containing a D-amino acid
Spontaneous D-Aspartic Acid Formation at Specific Sites of Lens Protein During Aging
Asymmetric Phenomena in Studies of Encapsulation and Assembly
Self-assembly of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polyesters and their Stereoselective Interaction with Liposomes of DMPC
Transferring Chirality in Homogeneous Catalysis
Chiroptical Properties of (S)-(-) Methyl Glycolate- d 1

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