Communications Chemistry (Aug 2021)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00555-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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.