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The enantio-preferential stabilization of D-ribose from parity violation

✍ Scribed by G.E. Tranter

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Weight: 319 KB
Volume: 135
Category: Article
ISSN: 0009-2614
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(87)85156-4

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✦ Synopsis

Ab initio calculations show that a biologically important sugar, D-ribose, is energetically stabilized relative to its unnatural Lenantiomer by the parity-violating weak interactions. This preferential stabilization may account for the exclusive adoption of Dribose rather than its L-enantiomer in the RNA of terrestrial organisms.