Capturing electron-driven chiral dynamics in UV-excited molecules.

ABSTRACT: Chiral molecules, used in applications such as enantioselective photocatalysis¹, circularly polarized light detection² and emission³ and molecular switches^4,5, exist in two geometrical configurations that are non-superimposable mirror images of each other. These so-called (R) and (S) enantiomers exhibit different physical and chemical properties when interacting with other chiral entities. Attosecond technology might enable influence over such interactions, given that it can probe and even direct electron motion within molecules on the intrinsic electronic timescale⁶ and thereby control reactivity^7-9. Electron currents in photoexcited chiral molecules have indeed been predicted to enable enantiosensitive molecular orientatio

SUBMITTER: Wanie V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11153151 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature