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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2018

Real-time determination of enantiomeric and isomeric content using photoelectron elliptical dichroism

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The fast and accurate analysis of chiral chemical mixtures is crucial for many applications but remains challenging. Here we use elliptically-polarized femtosecond laser pulses at high repetition rates to photoionize chiral molecules. The 3D photoelectron angular distribution produced provides molecular fingerprints, showing a strong forward-backward asymmetry which depends sensitively on the molecular structure and degree of ellipticity. Continuously scanning the laser ellipticity and analyzing the evolution of the rich, multi-dimensional molecular signatures allows us to observe real-time changes in the chemical and chiral content present with unprecedented speed and accuracy. We measure the enantiomeric excess of a compound with an accuracy of 0.4% in 10 min acquisition time, and follow the evolution of a mixture with an accuracy of 5% with a temporal resolution of 3 s. This method is even able to distinguish isomers, which cannot be easily distinguished by massspectrometry
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hal-02110380 , version 1 (14-12-2023)

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A. Comby, E. Bloch, C. Bond, D. Descamps, J. Miles, et al.. Real-time determination of enantiomeric and isomeric content using photoelectron elliptical dichroism. Nature Communications, 2018, 9, pp.5212. ⟨10.1038/s41467-018-07609-9⟩. ⟨hal-02110380⟩

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