Timeline for Why do chiral biological molecules only exist as one enantiomer? Does it have any advantage?
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| Jul 16, 2019 at 19:59 | comment | added | matt_black | Enantiomers are preferred because they work. Most of the things they interact with are also enantiomers and they won't interact equally with their mirror images (if a left handed person uses their left hand to try to shake the right hand of someone else, it doesn't go the same way as two right hands shaking). Enzymes made of random enantiomers would have a very different structure than their enantiomerically pure real versions. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 18:45 | vote | accept | Mr.HiggsBoson | ||
| Jul 16, 2019 at 18:33 | answer | added | Karsten♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 18:07 | history | edited | Karsten♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2019 at 15:26 | answer | added | deuti | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 10:16 | comment | added | user32223 | There are no advantages. The lucky isomers were lucky enough to be the first which organized in structures capable of replicating themselves | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 5:43 | history | asked | Mr.HiggsBoson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |