Abstract

Ab initio calculations show that a biologically important sugar, D-ribose, is energetically stabilized relative to its unnatural Lenantiomer by the parity-violating weak interactions. This preferential stabilization may account for the exclusive adoption of Dribose rather than its L-enantiomer in the RNA of terrestrial organisms.

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