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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 93, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0072346
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [GAP 883759-AQUACHIRAL]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Wi 1327/5-1]
- MaxWater initiative of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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This article presents a unique experimental design for measuring photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) from chiral molecules in aqueous solution. The design allows for the detection of asymmetries in photoelectron emission when ionizing with circularly polarized light of different helicities. The modular and flexible setup also enables the detection of other photoelectron angular distributions. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of PECD detection and its potential for studying the effect of hydration.
We present a unique experimental design that enables the measurement of photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) from chiral molecules in aqueous solution. The effect is revealed from the intensity difference of photoelectron emission into a backward-scattering angle relative to the photon propagation direction when ionizing with circularly polarized light of different helicity. This leads to asymmetries (normalized intensity differences) that depend on the handedness of the chiral sample and exceed the ones in conventional dichroic mechanisms by orders of magnitude. The asymmetry is largest for photon energies within several electron volts above the ionization threshold. A primary aim is to explore the effect of hydration on PECD. The modular and flexible design of our experimental setup EASI (Electronic structure from Aqueous Solutions and Interfaces) also allows for detection of more common photoelectron angular distributions, requiring distinctively different detection geometries and typically using linearly polarized light. A microjet is used for liquid-sample delivery. We describe EASI's technical features and present two selected experimental results, one based on synchrotron-light measurements and the other performed in the laboratory, using monochromatized He-II alpha radiation. The former demonstrates the principal effectiveness of PECD detection, illustrated for prototypic gas-phase fenchone. We also discuss the first data from liquid fenchone. In the second example, we present valence photoelectron spectra from liquid water and NaI aqueous solution, here obtained from a planar-surface microjet (flatjet). This new development features a more favorable symmetry for angle-dependent photoelectron measurements.
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