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Photoinduced optical rotation in a racemic mixture of hydrogen peroxide molecules
Type: article Published: Nonlinear Optics (Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. Sci. Technol.-Sec. B) 23, 286-304 Year: 2000 Authors: B.A.Grishanin, V.N.Zadkov Abstract: A problem of inducing a required sign of chirality in a racemic mixture of enantiomers of a chiral molecule is analyzed. As an example, a racemic mixture (vapor) of left- and right-handed enantiomers of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) molecule is considered. It is shown that biharmonic Raman excitation of the splitted due to the left-right conversion internal rotation levels can be e ectively used for inducing optical activity in the initially racemic vapor of H2O2 molecules. An experiment to study this photoinduced optical rotation is discussed. Laboratories: Laboratory of Quantum Information |
