Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Real-time determination of enantiomeric and isomeric content using photoelectron elliptical dichroism

  • A. Comby,
  • E. Bloch,
  • C. M. M. Bond,
  • D. Descamps,
  • J. Miles,
  • S. Petit,
  • S. Rozen,
  • J. B. Greenwood,
  • V. Blanchet,
  • Y. Mairesse

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07609-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The analysis of chiral chemical mixtures is crucial for many applications. Here, the authors perform real-time analysis of samples by ionizing them with elliptically polarized femtosecond laser pulses and detecting the angular distributions of the photoelectrons.