Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Inducing transient enantiomeric excess in a molecular quantum racemic mixture with microwave fields

  • Wenhao Sun,
  • Denis S. Tikhonov,
  • Himanshi Singh,
  • Amanda L. Steber,
  • Cristóbal Pérez,
  • Melanie Schnell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36653-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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There is growing interest in controlling and manipulating molecules using external field. Here the authors demonstrate microwave induced transient enantiomeric excess in a state-selective benzyl alcohol using microwave six-wave mixing.