Issue 12, 2003

What can time-resolved diffraction tell us about transient species?: excited-state structure determination at atomic resolution

Abstract

The author describes his work for which he coined the word ‘photocrystallography’, a technique which consists of using a laser to pump, or excite, a molecular crystal while the X-ray diffractometer probes its structure at the atomic level. The technique is being used to study highly reactive excited molecules that exist for just millionths or even billionths of a second using very intense light sources at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.

Graphical abstract: What can time-resolved diffraction tell us about transient species?: excited-state structure determination at atomic resolution

Article information

Article type
Focus
First published
07 May 2003

Chem. Commun., 2003, 1317-1320

What can time-resolved diffraction tell us about transient species?: excited-state structure determination at atomic resolution

P. Coppens, Chem. Commun., 2003, 1317 DOI: 10.1039/B301371P

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