Spontaneous deracemizations is a challenging, multidisciplinary subject in current chirality
research. In the absence of any chiral inductors, an achiral substance or a racemic …

Building on our ability to design and synthesise molecules and our understanding of the
noncovalent interactions between these molecules, the chemical sciences are currently …

The origin of life is a fascinating, unresolved problem whose deciphering would have
important scientific, epistemological and social implications. Over time, philosophers and …

Autocatalytic models for the emergence of homochirality have been of interest for more than
half a century. The sole experimental example of such an amplifying autocatalytic reaction is …

From the days of Biot1 and Pasteur, 2 when it was recognized that biopolymers are
composed from residues of a single handedness, scientists were puzzled as to the ancestry …

Conspectus Amplification of enantiomeric excess (ee) is a key feature for the chemical
evolution of biological homochirality from the origin of chirality. We describe the amplification …

The field of prebiotic chemistry has been dedicated over decades to finding abiotic routes
towards the molecular components of life. There is nowadays a handful of prebiotically …

Biological homochirality, such as that of l-amino acids, has been a puzzle with regards to the
chemical origin of life. Asymmetric autocatalysis is a reaction in which a chiral product acts …

Recent reports on both theoretical simulations and on the physical chemistry basis of
spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking (SMSB), that is, asymmetric synthesis in the absence …

Autocatalysis is a fundamental concept, used in a wide range of domains. From the most
general definition of autocatalysis, that is, a process in which a chemical compound is able …