Improved laser-distillation method for complete enantio-conversion of chiral mixtures

Abstract

Laser-assisted enantio-conversion is an ambitious issue related to chiral molecules in the atomic, molecular, and optical physics. The theoretical laser-distillation method had been proposed to realize enantio-conversion based on a four-level double-$\Delta$ model of two degenerated chiral ground states and two achiral excited states. Here, we re-investigate and improve the laser-distillation method so that a chiral mixture can be converted to an enantiopure sample of the desired chirality, i.e., complete enantio-conversion, which has not been discussed in the previous theoretical works of the laser-distillation method. Since the undesired chirality may be inefficient or even cause serious side effects in pharmacology, our work plays as an important improvement to the original theoretical works of the laser-assisted enantio-conversion.

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