Conformer-Selective Photoelectron Circular Dichroism. 2024

Etienne Rouquet, and Jennifer Dupont, and Valeria Lepere, and Gustavo A Garcia, and Laurent Nahon, and Anne Zehnacker
Institute of Molecular Science Orsay, Chemistry, Rue André Rivière, Université Paris Saclay, 91405, Orsay, FRANCE.

Conformational flexibility and chirality both play a key role in molecular recognition. It is therefore very useful to develop spectroscopic methods that simultaneously probe both properties. It has been theoretically predicted that photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) should be very sensitive to conformational isomerism. However, experimental proof has been less forthcoming and only exists for a very few favorable cases. Here, we present a new PECD scheme based on resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization (RE2PI) using UV/Vis nanosecond laser excitations. The spectral resolution obtained thereby guarantees conformer-selectivity by inducing resonant conformer-specific pp* S1¬S0 transitions. We apply this experimental scheme to the study of chiral 1-indanol, which exists in two conformers linked by a ring inversion and defined by the position of the hydroxyl group, namely axial and equatorial. We show that the PECD of the equatorial and axial forms considerably differ in sign, magnitude and shape. We also discuss the influence of the total ionization energy, vibronic excitation of intermediate and final states, and relative polarization of the excitation and ionization lasers. Conformer-specificity adds a new dimension to the applications of PECD in analytical chemistry addressing now the general case of floppy systems.

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