TY - JOUR
T1 - Two-Step Enantio-Selective Optical Switch
AU - Král, Petr
AU - Thanopulos, Ioannis
AU - Shapiro, Moshe
AU - Cohen, Doron
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge discussions with P. Brumer and ?>E. Frishman. This project was supported by the Minerva Foundation, GIF, the EU IHP program HPRN-CT-1999-00129, the Office of Naval Research, U.S.A., the ?>Swiss Friends of Weizmann Institute, and ISF Grant No. 11/02.
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - We present an optical “enantio-selective switch” that, in two steps, turns a (“racemic”) mixture of left-handed and right-handed chiral molecules into the enantiomerically pure state of interest. The optical switch is composed of an “enantio-discriminator” and an “enantio-converter” acting in tandem. The method is robust, insensitive to decay processes, and does not require molecular preorientation. We demonstrate the method on the purification of a racemate of (transiently chiral) [Formula presented] molecules, performed on the nanosecond time scale.
AB - We present an optical “enantio-selective switch” that, in two steps, turns a (“racemic”) mixture of left-handed and right-handed chiral molecules into the enantiomerically pure state of interest. The optical switch is composed of an “enantio-discriminator” and an “enantio-converter” acting in tandem. The method is robust, insensitive to decay processes, and does not require molecular preorientation. We demonstrate the method on the purification of a racemate of (transiently chiral) [Formula presented] molecules, performed on the nanosecond time scale.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.033001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.033001
M3 - מאמר
AN - SCOPUS:0037462933
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 90
SP - 4
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 3
ER -