Light-driven ultrafast chirality

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Molecular chirality is at the heart of a variety of technological developments including circularly polarized OLED, chiroptical switches, spintronic devices and molecular machines.

In order to gain insights on the underlying ultrafast mechanisms that dictate chiral interactions, we develop schemes to investigate in real-time electron dynamics in chiral molecules, with the ultimate goal of exploiting them for manipulating the outcome of ultrafast enantio-sensitive processes through charge-directed reactivity.

Reference: V. Wanie et al., "Capturing electron-driven chiral dynamics in UV-excited molecules", Nature 630, 109–115 (2024)