Rotational state-selection and alignment of chiral molecules by electrostatic hexapoles

摘要

Electrostatic hexapoles are revealed as a powerful tool in the rotationalstate-selection and alignment of molecules to be utilized in beam experimentson collisional and photoinitiated processes. In the paper, we report results onthe application of the hexapolar technique on the recently studied chiralmolecules propylene oxide, 2-butanol and 2bromobutane, to be investigated inselective photodissociation and enantiomeric discrimination.