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Uwe J. Meierhenrich
Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 164
Citations - 5794
Uwe J. Meierhenrich is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Homochirality & Interstellar ice. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 152 publications receiving 5010 citations. Previous affiliations of Uwe J. Meierhenrich include University of Bremen & Institut national de la recherche agronomique.
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Chirality, photochemistry and the detection of amino acids in interstellar ice analogues and comets
TL;DR: The original life-generating, symmetry-breaking event is explored and recent thoughts on the origin of enantiomeric excess in the universe are summarised and the transfer of asymmetry from chiral photons to racemic amino acids is highlighted.
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ESA mission ROSETTA will probe for chirality of cometary amino acids.
TL;DR: The team is going to perform the `chirality-experiment' in the near future with cometarymatter and results of these preliminary gas phase reactions are presented.
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Precursors of biological cofactors from ultraviolet irradiation of circumstellar/interstellar ice analogues.
Uwe J. Meierhenrich,Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro,W. A. Schutte,Wolfram Thiemann,Bernard Barbier,André Brack +5 more
TL;DR: The detection of N-heterocycles and amines in the room-temperature residue obtained after photo- and thermal processing of an interstellar ice analogue under high vacuum at 12 K is reported, the first detection of these compounds in experiments simulating circumstellar/interstellar conditions.
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Molecular chirality in meteorites and interstellar ices, and the chirality experiment on board the ESA cometary Rosetta mission.
TL;DR: Current models of the original symmetry-breaking influence that led to the exogenic delivery to Earth of prebiotic molecules with a slight enantiomeric excess are explored in this Minireview.
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Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life: Caught in the Act of Formation
TL;DR: Tracing Life's Origin: From Amino Acids to Space Mission ROSETTA as discussed by the authors, Stereochemistry for the Study of the Origin of Life, Minority Report: Life's Chiral Molecules of Opposite Handedness.