Cover Picture: Serine Octamer Reactions:
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Zoltan Takats; Sergio C. Nanita; R. Graham Cooks
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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**In the beginning** the origin of life involved a series of homochiral chemical reactions. Some of these may have involved serine and its homochiral octamer, as shown. Many of these reactions occur in a chirally selective fashion. The chiral exchange reactions favor the enantiomers present in moder