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JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
卷 74, 期 5, 页码 1629-1635出版社
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.74.1629
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homochirality; open system; polymerization; enantiomer; rate equation; dynamical chiral symmetry breaking
As an attempt to understand the homochirality of organic molecules in life, a chemical reaction model is proposed where the production of chiral monomers from achiral substrate is catalyzed by the polymers of the same enationteric type. This system has to be open because in a closed system the enhanced production of chiral monomers by enzymes is compensated by the associated enhancement in back reaction, and the chiral symmetry is conserved. Open flow without cross inhibition is shown to lead to the chirality selection in a general model. In polymerization, the influx of substrate from the ambience and the efflux of chiral products for purposes other than the catalyst production make the system necessarily open. The chiral symmetry is found to be broken if the influx of substrate lies within a finite interval. As the efficiency of the enzyme increases, the maximum value of the enantiomeric excess approaches unity so that the chirality selection becomes complete.
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