Guide to the book "PROGRESS IN BIOLOGICAL CHIRALITY"

Gyula Pályi

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Contents

• Proposed Table of Contents.
• Origin of Biomacromolecular Chirality: In Search of Evolutional Dynamics (V. Avetisov).
• Carbon Monoxide Clusters in the Formation of D-Sugars, L-Amino Acids, Ribonucleotides and Deoxyribonucleic Acids in Prebiotic Molecular Evolution on Earth (N. Aylward, N. Bofinger).
• Molecular Clockworks as Tools for Biological Chirality (L. Bencze et al.).
• Diastereomers Do, What They Should Not Do (H. Brunner).
• Molecular Origins of Life: Homochirality as a Cosequence ot the Dynamic Co-Emergence and Co-Evolution of Peptides and Chemical Energetics (A. Commeyras et al.).
• Use of Amino Acids and Amino Acid Racemization for Age Determination in Archaeometry (J.Csapo et al.).
• Enantiomeric Enrichment in Nonracemic Conglomerates. A Possible Component of the Solution to the Problem of the Origin of Biochirality (S.I. Goldberg).
• Genetic Code: Self Referential and Functional Model (R.C. Guimaraes, C.H.C. Moreira).
• Specific Symmetry of Living Systems (V.A. Gusev).
• Chiral Crystal Faces of Common Rock-Forming Minerals (R.M. Hazen).
• Origin of Biomolecules - Origin of Homochirality (C.Hajdu, L. Keszthelyi).
• Implication of Polya's Urn Experiment and Celebral Lateralization (N. Hokkyo).
• Theory of Hierarchical Homochirality (D.K. Kondepudi).
• Possible Mechanisms for Production of Larger Enantiomeric Excess (D.Z. Lippmann, J. Dix).
• Sugar C-Sulfonic Acids (A.Liptak).
• Racemization of Amino Acids in Hydrothermal Environments: a Contribution of Temperature Gradient (K. Matsuno, A. Nemoto).
• The Theory of Chirality Induction and Chirality Reduction in Biomolecules (P.G. Mezey).
• The Theory of Chirality Induction and Chirality Reduction in Biomolecules (K. Matsuno, P.G. Mezey).
• Transfer of the Chiral Information of Natural Amino Acids in Biomimetic Organic Syntheses (K. Micskei et al.).
• CD and Visual Science (K. Nakanishi, N. Fishkin, N. Berova).
• Volatile Components of Food Aroma: Biosynthesis and Biotransformations (F. Bellesia et al.).
• Chiral Spaces in Encapsulation Complexes (Julius Rebek, Jr. et al.).
• Serum Albumin and Natural Products (L. Di Bari, S. Ripoli, Piero Salvadori).
• Chiral Spaces in Encapsulation Complexes (R.F. Polishchuk et al.).
• Selection in the Model Process of Prebiotic Synthesis of RNA Using Metal Ion Catalyst and Template (H. Sawai).
• Different Internal Gradients for L and D Homochiral Solutions in Homogeneous Magnetic Fields (R. Scorei, V.M. Cimpoiasu).
• Tryptophanase Activity on D-Tryptophan (A. Shimada et al.).
• Deviation from Physical Identity Between D- and L-tyrosine (M.Shinitzky, A.C. Elitzur, D.W. Deamer).
• Occurence of D-Amino Acids in Food (L. Simon Sarkadi).
• Asymmetric Autocatalysis, Absolute Asymmetric Synthesis and Origin of Homochirality of Biomolecules (K. Soai).
• Deviation from Chemical Identity Between D and L Tyrosine? (M. Shinitzky et al.).
• Charophyte Gyrogonites, the Result of Enantioselective Influence 250 Million Years Ago (I. Soulie-Marsche).
• Chirality Transfer in the Formation of the Indole Alkaloids Derived from Secologanin (G. Beke et al.).
• Origin of Biological Chirality (T. Yukawa).

  Bibliographic & ordering Information

  Hardbound, ISBN: 0-08-044396-6, 444 pages, publication date: 2004 Imprint: ELSEVIER

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