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Origin of Chirality
The origin of chirality is an unsolved problem in the natural sciences concerning why terrestrial life consistently prefers particular chiral configurations, a phenomenon known as homochirality. Proposed explanations include chiral bias from meteorites, circularly polarized light, and autocatalytic amplification.
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Oct 12
The Soai reaction provides a purely chemical pathway that does not rely on biological enzymes, starting from an extremely small random fluctuation and, through autocatalytic cycles, gradually amplifying one chiral configuration to nearly 100% purity, providing an experimentally verifiable chemical model for chiral selection in the origin of life.
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