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

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 …

Upon irradiation in the presence of a chiral benzophenone catalyst (5 mol%), a racemic
mixture of a given chiral imidazolidine-2, 4-dione (hydantoin) can be converted almost …

Understanding how life arose is a fundamental problem of biology. Much progress has been
made by adopting a synthetic and mechanistic perspective on originating life. We present a …

Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking is an efficient way to obtain homogeneously chiral
agents, pharmaceutical ingredients and materials. It is also in the focus of the discussion …

A significant number of synthetic systems capable of replicating themselves or entities that
are complementary to themselves have appeared in the last 30 years. Building on an …

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 …

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 …

Connecting intrinsically achiral catalytic centers to helical polymers provides a new class of
asymmetric catalysts whose selectivity exclusively stems from the chiral environment …

An improved process for the deracemization of a racemic conglomerate suspension of
enantiomorphs has been created based on principles developed in an earlier method using …