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“If Pigs Could Fly” Chemistry: A Tutorial on the Principle of Microscopic Reversibility
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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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- Authors
- Blackmond, D. G.
- Venue
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-03-24
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- 2648-2654
- ISSN
- 1433-7851 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-3773
- OpenAlex
- W2108229334
- Cited by
- 186
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 4.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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