Innovative Experimental Scheme Can Create Tailor-Made Mirror Molecules (IMAGE)

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Innovative Experimental Scheme Can Create Tailor-Made Mirror Molecules

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When rotated rapidly, symmetric molecules like phosphine (PH) lose their symmetry: The bond between phosphorus and hydrogen along the axis of rotation is shorter than the other two such bonds. Depending on the direction of rotation, two mirror-inverted versions of the molecule are formed.

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DESY, Andrey Yachmenev

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