Molecular chirality and its monitoring by ultrafast x-ray pulses

JR Rouxel, S Mukamel - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Major advances in X-ray sources including the development of circularly polarized and
orbital angular momentum pulses make it possible to probe matter chirality at …

Valence shell one-photon photoelectron circular dichroism in chiral systems

L Nahon, GA Garcia, I Powis - Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Photoelectron circular dichroism, or PECD, an intense forward–backward asymmetry with
respect to the light's propagation axis observed in the photoelectron angular distribution …

Generating isolated elliptically polarized attosecond pulses using bichromatic counterrotating circularly polarized laser fields

L Medišauskas, J Wragg, H Van Der Hart, MY Ivanov - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We theoretically demonstrate the possibility to generate both trains and isolated attosecond
pulses with high ellipticity in a practical experimental setup. The scheme uses circularly …

Polarization control in an X-ray free-electron laser

AA Lutman, JP MacArthur, M Ilchen, AO Lindahl… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers are unique sources of high-brightness coherent radiation.
However, existing devices supply only linearly polarized light, precluding studies of chiral …

Detecting chirality in molecules by imaging photoelectron circular dichroism

MHM Janssen, I Powis - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this Perspective we discuss photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD), a relatively novel
technique that can detect chiral molecules with high sensitivity. PECD has an enantiomeric …

Imaging photoelectron circular dichroism of chiral molecules by femtosecond multiphoton coincidence detection

CS Lehmann, NB Ram, I Powis… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Here, we provide a detailed account of novel experiments employing electron-ion
coincidence imaging to discriminate chiral molecules. The full three-dimensional angular …

Helicity-selective enhancement and polarization control of attosecond high harmonic waveforms driven by bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields

KM Dorney, JL Ellis, C Hernández-García… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
High harmonics driven by two-color counterrotating circularly polarized laser fields are a
unique source of bright, circularly polarized, extreme ultraviolet, and soft x-ray beams, where …

Femtosecond photoelectron circular dichroism of chemical reactions

V Svoboda, NB Ram, D Baykusheva, D Zindel… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Understanding the chirality of molecular reaction pathways is essential for a broad range of
fundamental and applied sciences. However, the current ability to probe chirality on the time …

Photoelectron circular dichroism of bicyclic ketones from multiphoton ionization with femtosecond laser pulses

C Lux, M Wollenhaupt, C Sarpe, T Baumert - ChemPhysChem, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) is a CD effect up to the ten‐percent regime and
shows contributions from higher‐order Legendre polynomials when multiphoton ionization …

[HTML][HTML] A setup for studies of photoelectron circular dichroism from chiral molecules in aqueous solution

S Malerz, H Haak, F Trinter, AB Stephansen… - Review of Scientific …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We present a unique experimental design that enables the measurement of photoelectron
circular dichroism (PECD) from chiral molecules in aqueous solution. The effect is revealed …