Self‐replication is a fundamental concept. The idea of an entity that can repeatedly create
more of itself has captured the imagination of many thinkers from von Neumann to …

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 …

Circularly polarized light (CPL) as a massless physical force causes absolute asymmetric
photosynthesis, photodestruction, and photoresolution. CPL handedness has long been …

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 …

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 …

Asymmetric amplification during self‐replication is a key feature that is used to explain the
origin of homochirality. Asymmetric autocatalysis of pyrimidyl alkanol in the asymmetric …

The Soai reaction and the Viedma deracemization of racemic conglomerate crystal mixtures
are experimental pieces of evidence of the ability of enantioselective autocatalytic coupled …

The relative abundance of various species in the reaction pool of the Soai autoamplification
reaction was estimated by large-scale density functional theory (DFT) computations …

We discovered asymmetric autocatalysis in the enantioselective addition of diisopropylzinc
to pyrimidine-5-carbaldehyde, where the product 5-pyrimidyl alkanol acts as a highly …

Among several theories proposed for the origin of homochirality, absolute asymmetric
synthesis is unique because it produces chiral compounds without the intervention of any …