Ground‐State Photoelectron Circular Dichroism of Methyl p‐Tolyl Sulfoxide by Single‐Photon Ionisation from a Table‐Top Source

Single‐photon ionisation of enantiopure methyl p‐tolyl sulfoxide by circularly polarised light at 133 nm shows remarkably strong photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD), which has been measured in a velocity‐map‐imaging spectrometer. Both enantiomers were measured, each showing a PECD of a similar m...

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Published in:Chemphyschem 2022-12, Vol.23 (24), p.e202200575-n/a
Main Authors: Waters, Max D. J., Ladda, Nicolas, Senftleben, Arne, Svoboda, Vít, Belozertsev, Mikhail, Baumert, Thomas, Wörner, Hans Jakob
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cations
chirality
Circular polarization
Configuration interaction
Dichroism
Enantiomers
high harmonic generation
Imaging spectrometers
Ionization
methyl para-tolyl sulfoxide
Photochemical reactions
photoelectron circular dichroism
Photoelectrons
Photoionization
Photons
Sulfoxides
velocity map imaging
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Summary:Single‐photon ionisation of enantiopure methyl p‐tolyl sulfoxide by circularly polarised light at 133 nm shows remarkably strong photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD), which has been measured in a velocity‐map‐imaging spectrometer. Both enantiomers were measured, each showing a PECD of a similar magnitude (ca. 25 %). These experiments were carried out with a tabletop high‐harmonic source with a photon energy of 9.3 eV, capable of ionising the electronic ground state of most organic and inorganic molecules. Ab‐initio scattering calculations provide a theoretical value of the expected chiral asymmetry parameter, and agree very well with the measured values once orbital mixing via configuration interaction in the cation is taken into account. This study demonstrates a simple photoionisation scheme that can be readily applied to study the time‐resolved PECD of photochemical reactions and suggests a pronounced sensitivity of PECD to electronic configuration interaction in the cation. Using circularly‐polarised vacuum ultraviolet light generated from a high‐harmonic source, the remarkably large ground state photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) of methyl p‐tolyl sulfoxide of 25 % is shown. The observation matches quantitatively with a theory that accounts for configuration interaction. Thus, PECD is sensitive to the electron configuration in a way that traditional photoelectron spectroscopy is not.
ISSN:1439-4235
1439-7641
DOI:10.1002/cphc.202200575