Site-specific interrogation of an ionic chiral fragment during photolysis using an X-ray free-electron laser

oleh: Markus Ilchen, Philipp Schmidt, Nikolay M. Novikovskiy, Gregor Hartmann, Patrick Rupprecht, Ryan N. Coffee, Arno Ehresmann, Andreas Galler, Nick Hartmann, Wolfram Helml, Zhirong Huang, Ludger Inhester, Alberto A. Lutman, James P. MacArthur, Timothy Maxwell, Michael Meyer, Valerija Music, Heinz-Dieter Nuhn, Timur Osipov, Dipanwita Ray, Thomas J. A. Wolf, Sadia Bari, Peter Walter, Zheng Li, Stefan Moeller, André Knie, Philipp V. Demekhin

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-08-01

Deskripsi

Ultrashort circularly polarised light pulses from free-electron lasers offer a route for exploring chiral molecules and their dynamics, but remain challenging to harness. Here, X-ray pump-probe experiments enable a site-specific photoelectron circular dichroism measurement on a dissociating chiral molecule.