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 …

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 …

Attosecond-resolved photoionization of chiral molecules

S Beaulieu, A Comby, A Clergerie, J Caillat… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Chiral light-matter interactions have been investigated for two centuries, leading to the
discovery of many chiroptical processes used for discrimination of enantiomers. Whereas …

Polarization control of isolated high-harmonic pulses

PC Huang, C Hernández-García, JT Huang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
High-harmonic generation driven by femtosecond lasers makes it possible to capture the
fastest dynamics in molecules and materials. However, thus far, the shortest isolated …

Ultrasensitive chiral spectroscopy by dynamical symmetry breaking in high harmonic generation

O Neufeld, D Ayuso, P Decleva, MY Ivanov… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We propose and numerically demonstrate a new chiral spectroscopy method that is based
on a universal system-independent mechanism of dynamical symmetry breaking in high …

Ultrafast X-ray probes of elementary molecular events

D Keefer, SM Cavaletto, JR Rouxel… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Elementary events that determine photochemical outcomes and molecular functionalities
happen on the femtosecond and subfemtosecond timescales. Among the most ubiquitous …

Chiral discrimination through bielliptical high-harmonic spectroscopy

D Baykusheva, HJ Wörner - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Molecular chirality plays an essential role in most biochemical processes. The observation
and quantification of chirality-sensitive signals, however, remains extremely challenging …

Laser-induced electron diffraction in chiral molecules

D Rajak, S Beauvarlet, O Kneller, A Comby, R Cireasa… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Strong laser pulses enable probing molecules with their own electrons. The oscillating
electric field tears electrons off a molecule, accelerates them, and drives them back toward …

Photoelectron Circular Dichroism with Two Overlap** Laser Pulses of Carrier Frequencies and Linearly Polarized in Two Mutually Orthogonal Directions

PV Demekhin, AN Artemyev, A Kastner, T Baumert - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Using a model methanelike chiral system, we theoretically demonstrate a possibility to
access photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) by a single experiment with two …

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 …