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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik
MO 13: Posters 3: Cold Molecules, Helium Nano Droplets, and Experimental Techniques
MO 13.5: Poster
Mittwoch, 19. März 2014, 16:30–18:30, Spree-Palais
Spatial separation of molecular clusters and conformers — •Thomas Kierspel1,2, Daniel A. Horke1, Yuan-Pin Chang1, Sebastian Trippel1, and Jochen Küpper1,2,3 — 1Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg — 2The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging — 3Department of Physics, University of Hamburg
Many complex molecules exhibit multiple structural isomers (conformers) [1], even at the low temperatures in a cold molecular beam [2]. These conformers, as well as molecular clusters, typically differ in their electric dipole moment. The dispersion of a molecular beam using the electric deflector can be exploited for the spatial separation of the different species present in the beam [3]. We present the spatial separation of both, cis- and trans-, conformers of 3-fluorophenol (3FP) [4], the separation of indole-water dimers from a cluster soup [5], and discuss the prospects for conformer separation of glycine, the smallest amino acid. 3FP is a prototypically large molecule and conformational clean samples enable novel experiments like laser pump-, and ultrafast X-ray or photoelectron diffraction probe, to image conformer-interconversion processes. Molecular clusters like indole-water are bridging the gap between isolated and solvated molecules and are a key to understand the molecule-solvent interaction and the influence of the environment on the molecular function.
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