Unidirectional circulation in a prebiotic photochemical cycle

  1. Giorgio Careri* and
  2. Jeffries Wyman
  1. *Dipartimento di Fisica, Facoltà di Scienze, Università di Roma I, 00185, Rome, Italy
  2. Istituto di Chimica, Facoltà di Medicina, Università di Roma I, 00185, Rome, Italy

Abstract

In this brief note, we suggest the possibility that a soliton-assisted unidirectional photochemical cycle has played a role in prebiotic evolution. This suggestion is based on a model calculation which is itself based on the detection of Davydov-type soliton overtones in acetanilide.

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