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Homochirality: a prerequisite or consequence of life?
Axel Brandenburg
Many of the building blocks of life such as amino acids and nucleotides are chiral, i.e., different from their mirror image. Contemporary life selects and synthesizes only one of t…
The limited roles of autocatalysis and enantiomeric cross inhibition in achieving homochirality in dilute systems
Axel Brandenburg
To understand the effects of fluctuations on achieving homochirality, we employ a Monte-Carlo method where autocatalysis and enantiomeric cross-inhibition, as well as racemization…
Homochirality in an early peptide world
Axel Brandenburg, Harry J. Lehto, Kirsi M. Lehto
A recently proposed model of non-autocatalytic reactions in dipeptide reactions leading to spontaneous symmetry breaking and homochirality is examined. The model is governed by act…
Dissociation in a polymerization model of homochirality
A. Brandenburg, A. C. Andersen, M. Nilsson
A fully self-contained model of homochirality is presented that contains the effects of both polymerization and dissociation. The dissociation fragments are assumed to replenish th…
How Long can Left and Right Handed Life Forms Coexist?
Axel Brandenburg, Tuomas Multamäki
Reaction-diffusion equations based on a polymerization model are solved to simulate the spreading of hypothetic left and right handed life forms on the Earth's surface. The equatio…
Homochiral growth through enantiomeric cross-inhibition
A. Brandenburg, A. C. Andersen, S. Höfner +1
The stability and conservation properties of a recently proposed polymerization model are studied. The achiral (racemic) solution is linearly unstable once the relevant control par…