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Chiral amplification by polypeptides and its relevance to prebiotic catalysis
David R Kelly1, Alastair Meek, Stanley M Roberts
1Department of Chemistry, Cardiff University, P. O. Box 912, Cardiff, Wales, UKCF10 3TB. KellyDR@Cardiff.ac.uk
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 16, 2004
Abstract:
Polyleucine prepared from scalemic Leu-NCA monomers, shows high chiral amplification in the Julia-Colonna epoxidation of chalcone.