Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Observation of site-selective chemical bond changes via ultrafast chemical shifts

  • Andre Al-Haddad,
  • Solène Oberli,
  • Jesús González-Vázquez,
  • Maximilian Bucher,
  • Gilles Doumy,
  • Phay Ho,
  • Jacek Krzywinski,
  • Thomas J. Lane,
  • Alberto Lutman,
  • Agostino Marinelli,
  • Timothy J. Maxwell,
  • Stefan Moeller,
  • Stephen T. Pratt,
  • Dipanwita Ray,
  • Ron Shepard,
  • Stephen H. Southworth,
  • Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia,
  • Peter Walter,
  • Linda Young,
  • Antonio Picón,
  • Christoph Bostedt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34670-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy probes the chemical environment in a molecule at a specific atomic site. Here the authors extend this concept with a site selective trigger to follow chemical bond changes as they occur on the femtosecond time scale.