Element- and enantiomer-selective visualization of ibuprofen dimer vibrations
Abstract
In chemistry, biology and materials science, the ability to access interatomic interactions and their dynamical evolution has become possible with the advent of femtosecond lasers. In particular, the observation of vibrational wave packets via optical (UV-visible-IR) spectroscopies has been a major achievement as it can track the motion of nuclei within the system. However, optical spectroscopies only detect the effect of the interatomic vibrations on the global electronic surfaces. New tuneable, pulsed and polarized sources of short-wavelength radiation, such as X-Ray Free electron lasers, can overcome this limitation, allowing for chemical and, of primary importance in biochemistry, enantiomeric selectivity. This selectivity may be complemented by taking into account the chemical shifts of atoms belonging to different molecular moieties
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@article{arxiv.2010.04860,
title = {Element- and enantiomer-selective visualization of ibuprofen dimer vibrations},
author = {R. Mincigrucci and Jeremy Rouxel and Barbara Rossi and Emiliano Principi and Cettina Bottari and Sara Catalini and Danny Fainozzi and Laura Foglia and Alberto Simoncig and Alessia Matruglio and Gabor Kurdi and Flavio Capotondi and Emanuele Pedersoli and Andrea Perucchi and Federica Piccirilli and Alessandro Gessini and Marco Giarola and Gino Mariotto and Shaul Mukamel and Filippo Bencivenga and Majed Chergui and Claudio Masciovecchio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.04860},
year = {2020}
}