Vibrationally induced inversion of photoelectron forward-backward asymmetry in chiral molecule photoionization by circularly polarized light

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Garcia, Gustavo A ^a   Nahon, Laurent ^a   Daly, Steven ^b   Powis, Ivan ^b  

^a SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; ELECTRON; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

ADIABATICITY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHIRAL MOLECULE PHOTOIONIZATION; CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; ELECTRON; ENANTIOMER; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; SPECTRUM; SYNCHROTRON; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; VIBRATION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84881442646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3132     Document Type: Article

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