Observation of site-selective chemical bond changes via ultrafast chemical shifts

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy probes the chemical environment in a molecule at a specific atomic site. Here the authors extend this concept with a site selective trigger to follow chemical bond changes as they occur on the femtosecond time scale.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andre Al-Haddad, Solène Oberli, Jesús González-Vázquez, Maximilian Bucher, Gilles Doumy, Phay Ho, Jacek Krzywinski, Thomas J. Lane, Alberto Lutman, Agostino Marinelli, Timothy J. Maxwell, Stefan Moeller, Stephen T. Pratt, Dipanwita Ray, Ron Shepard, Stephen H. Southworth, Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia, Peter Walter, Linda Young, Antonio Picón, Christoph Bostedt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34670-2