Stereochemical configuration and selective excitation of the chiral molecule halothane
Chemical Physics
2016-12-21 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
X-ray single-photon ionization and fragmentation of the chiral molecule halothane (CHBrClCF) from a racemic mixture have been investigated using the COLTRIMS (Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy) technique. Two important facets related to the core ionization of this species are examined: Firstly, the distinction of enantiomers (mirror isomers) and the determination of absolute configuration on a single-molecule level by four-body Coulomb explosion; secondly, the interplay of site-selective excitation and fragmentation patterns. These results are easily transferrable to other molecular species and show the wealth of features
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@article{arxiv.1609.07913,
title = {Stereochemical configuration and selective excitation of the chiral molecule halothane},
author = {Martin Pitzer and Gregor Kastirke and Phillip Burzynski and Miriam Weller and Daniel Metz and Jonathan Neff and Markus Waitz and Florian Trinter and Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt and Joshua B. Williams and Till Jahnke and Horst Schmidt-Böcking and Robert Berger and Reinhard Dörner and Markus Schöffler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.07913},
year = {2016}
}