6 papers
Generative Modeling Enables Molecular Structure Retrieval from Coulomb Explosion Imaging
Xiang Li, Till Jahnke, Rebecca Boll +12
Capturing the structural changes that molecules undergo during chemical reactions in real space and time is a long-standing dream and an essential prerequisite for understanding an…
Probing the structure of cyclic hydrocarbon molecules with X-ray-induced Coulomb explosion imaging
Kurtis D. Borne, Rebecca Boll, Thomas M. Baumann +27
Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI) is a powerful experimental technique that maps a molecule's geometric structure onto the momenta of ionic molecular fragments produced by rapid mult…
Multiple charge transfer driven complex reaction dynamics: covalent bonding meets van der Waals interactions
Ruichao Dong, Xiaoqing Hu, Owen Dennis McGinnis +22
Ultrafast charge transfer (CT) processes redistribute electronic charge within and between molecular units and play a central role in many physical, chemical, and biological phenom…
Probing Instantaneous Single-Molecule Chirality in the Planar Ground State of Formic Acid
D. Tsitsonis, M. Kircher, N. M. Novikovskiy +12
We experimentally demonstrate that individual molecules of formic acid are chiral even when they are in the vibronic ground state, which has a planar equilibrium structure. We ioni…
Selective Bond Breaking in CO Induced by Photoelectron Recoil
J. Weiherer, N. Melzer, M. Kircher +16
After core-ionization of CO, typically an Auger-Meitner decay takes place, leading to the formation of a dicationic molecule that may dissociate into CO and O. We demon…
Experimental Observation of Non-Exponential Auger-Meitner Decay of Inner-Shell-Excited CO
M. Weller, G. Kastirke, J. Rist +10
Electronically excited atoms or molecules may deexcite by emission of a secondary electron through an Auger-Meitner decay. This deexcitation process is typically considered to be e…