Our latest paper has just been published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) as a cover article!
This collaborative research with the Cooke group revealed a significantly large asymmetry in amino acid photodissociation rates, more than an order of magnitude greater than what had been generally assumed. This discovery sheds light on how asymmetric photodissociation in extraterrestrial environments could have played a crucial role in the emergence of biological homochirality.
