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- noun uncountable The condition of being
enantiopure - noun countable The extent to which a material is enantiopure
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One can easily imagine the coexistence of solid and dissolved amino acids under a range of environmental conditions in a prebiotic landscape, and high ee could then evolve from an initially small imbalance in ee if (1) the amino acid forms a racemic compound rather than a conglomerate; (2) the amino acid exhibits high enantiopurity at its eutectic; and (3) the amino acid acts with high selectivity as an asymmetric catalyst in solution phase transformations.
Chirality of life: Another false positive? - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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