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“If Pigs Could Fly” Chemistry: A Tutorial on the Principle of Microscopic Reversibility

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 430 KB
Volume: 48
Category: Article
ISSN: 0044-8249
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200804566

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Abstract

Through a glass darkly: Several recent autocatalytic reaction models for the origin of homochirality have suggested ways in which one enantiomer of the product might be reconverted into the other by a recycling reaction in a closed system. These models are revealed to violate the principle of microscopic reversibility, a powerful tool for assessing the plausibility of proposed reaction networks even at far‐from‐equilibrium conditions.magnified image

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