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ArticleChemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry2025

Spontaneous Mirror-Symmetry Breaking Destabilizes Racemates: A Route to Homochirality and Reversed Chemical Selectivity.

Josep M Ribó, Jean-Claude Micheau, Thomas Buhse

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Article in Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Spontaneous Mirror-Symmetry Breaking Destabilizes Racemates: A Route to Homochirality and Reversed Chemical Selectivity.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2025
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3 authors.

Josep M RibóDepartment of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Cosmos Science (IEEC-UB), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, E-08028, Catalonia, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6258-1726
Jean-Claude MicheauLaboratoire Softmat, UMR CNRS 5623, Université Paul Sabatier, F-31062, Toulouse, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1193-4306
Thomas BuhseCentro de Investigaciones Químicas, IICBA, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, 62209, Morelos, Mexico.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5082-0873

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2020-116846GB-C21Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2020-116846GB-C22
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several models and experiments yielding to spontaneous mirror-symmetry breaking (SMSB) have been revisited. It is concluded that all show first-order autocatalytic dynamics for the emergence of an enantiomeric excesses (ee). However, first-order autocatalysis is by itself unable to lead to SMSB. Therefore, the emergence of scalemic nonequilibrium stationary state (NESS) is due to racemate destabilization through the coupling of autocatalysis with other enantioselective reactions. In contrast with the nonlinear effects and kinetic control in asymmetric synthesis SMSB appears as the signature of a bifurcation scenario leading to scalemic NESSs. Stoichiometric network analysis points to the potential interest of these autocatalytic networks to interpret the changes in the chemical selectivity between nonenantiomeric competitive replicators in far-from-equilibrium conditions.

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entropy productionfar‐from‐equilibrium thermodynamicsspontaneous mirror‐symmetry breaking reaction networkssystems chemistry

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