Dynamic structure elucidation of chemical reactivity by laser pulses and X-ray probes.
Visualising chemical reactions by X-ray methods is a tantalising prospect. New light sources provide the prospect for studying atomic, electronic and energy transfers accompanying chemical change by X-ray spectroscopy and inelastic scattering. Here we assess how this adventure can illuminate inorganic and catalytic chemistry. In particular X-ray inelastic scattering provides a means of exploiting X-ray free electron lasers, as a parallel to laser Raman spectroscopy.
Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0FA, UK.
Stuart A
SA
Bartlett
Michelle L
ML
Hamilton
John
J
Evans