TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fehre, Kilian
A1  - Eckart, Sebastian
A1  - Kunitski, Maksim
A1  - Pitzer, Martin
A1  - Zeller, Stefan
A1  - Janke, Christian Sören
A1  - Trabert, Daniel
A1  - Rist, Jonas
A1  - Weller, Miriam
A1  - Hartung, Alexander
A1  - Schmidt, Lothar
A1  - Jahnke, Till
A1  - Berger, Robert
A1  - Dörner, Reinhard
A1  - Schöffler, Markus S.
T1  - Enantioselective fragmentation of an achiral molecule in a strong laser field
T2  - Science advances
N2  - Chirality is omnipresent in living nature. On the single molecule level, the response of a chiral species to a chiral probe depends on their respective handedness. A prominent example is the difference in the interaction of a chiral molecule with left or right circularly polarized light. In the present study, we show by Coulomb explosion imaging that circularly polarized light can also induce a chiral fragmentation of a planar and thus achiral molecule. The observed enantiomer strongly depends on the orientation of the molecule with respect to the light propagation direction and the helicity of the ionizing light. This finding might trigger new approaches to improve laser-driven enantioselective chemical synthesis.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48834
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-488344
SN  - 2375-2548
N1  - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 5
IS  - 3, eaau7923
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
PB  - Assoc.
CY  - Washington, DC [u. a.]
ER  -