New publication in Communications Chemistry

In this commentary article entitled 'Open questions in attochemistry', Prof. Francesca Calegari from DESY and Prof. Fernando Martín from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid describe a new way of doing chemistry—attochemistry—by directly acting on electronic motion and discuss a few key open questions in this emerging field.

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While in femtochemistry control is exerted at time scales where the structural rearrangement dominates the molecular dynamics, in attochemistry the goal is to control the outcomes of a chemical reaction by acting at the electron time scale.

A commentary article entitled "Open questions in attochemistry" has been recently published in Communications Chemistry.

Attosecond science is nowadays a well-established research field, and table-top attosecond sources based on high-harmonic generation are routinely used to access electronic motion in matter at its natural time scale. In this article, Prof. Francesca Calegari from DESY and Prof. Fernando Martín from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid describe a new way of doing chemistry—attochemistry—by directly acting on electronic motion and discuss a few key open questions in this emerging field.

The full publication can be found here.