Ultrafast chirality: the road to efficient chiral measurements

D Ayuso, AF Ordonez, O Smirnova - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Today we are witnessing the electric–dipole revolution in chiral measurements. Here we
reflect on its lessons and outcomes, such as the perspective on chiral measurements using …

Chiral Control of Gas‐Phase Molecules using Microwave Pulses

H Singh, FEL Berggötz, W Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave three‐wave mixing has emerged as a novel approach for studying chiral
molecules in the gas phase. This technique employs resonant microwave pulses and is a …

Quantum control of rovibrational dynamics and application to light-induced molecular chirality

M Leibscher, E Pozzoli, A Blech, M Sigalotti, U Boscain… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Achiral molecules can be made temporarily chiral by excitation with electric fields, in the
sense that an average over molecular orientations displays a net chiral signal [DS Tikhonov …

The importance of molecular axis alignment and symmetry-breaking in photoelectron elliptical dichroism

C Sparling, A Ruget, L Ireland, N Kotsina… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Photoelectron angular distributions (PADs) produced from the photoionization of chiral
molecules using elliptically polarized light exhibit a forward/backward asymmetry with …

Trends in angle-resolved molecular photoelectron spectroscopy

D Dowek, P Decleva - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of angle-resolved molecular photoelectron spectroscopy is reviewed, with
emphasis on foundations and most recent applications in different regimes of light–matter …

Induced photoelectron circular dichroism onto an achiral chromophore

E Rouquet, M Roy Chowdhury, GA Garcia… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
An achiral chromophore can acquire a chiral spectroscopic signature when interacting with
a chiral environment. This so-called induced chirality is documented in electronic or …

Investigation of photoelectron elliptical dichroism for chiral analysis

JB Greenwood, ID Williams - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes a compact new instrument, conceived specifically for measurements of
Photo Electron Elliptical Dichroism (PEELD) and designed for simplicity of use as a …

Conformer‐Selective Photoelectron Circular Dichroism

E Rouquet, J Dupont, V Lepere… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conformational flexibility and chirality both play a key role in molecular recognition. It is
therefore very useful to develop spectroscopic methods that simultaneously probe both …

Two decades of imaging photoelectron circular dichroism: from first principles to future perspectives

C Sparling, D Townsend - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been a significant recent surge in the number of studies interrogating chiral
molecules in the gas phase using photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) and related …

The role of intramolecular hydrogen bonding in photoelectron circular dichroism: the diastereoisomers of 1-amino-2-indanol

E Rouquet, J Dupont, J Vincent, V Lepère… - Physical Chemistry …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
(1R, 2R)-trans-Aminoindanol and (1S, 2R)-cis-aminoindanol, denoted as trans-AI and cis-AI,
are diastereoisomer aromatic aminoalcohols differing by the presence of a weak …