ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
Time-Resolved Structural Imaging of Chemical Transition State Dynamics
For bonds to be broken and new bonds to be formed, chemical reactants have to come close to each other and evolve through transient intermediate configurations known as the transition state. Transition state dynamics is closely related to reaction mechanisms and of fundamental importance in chemistry. Much work has been done to unravel these dynamics, which often involve major structural rearrangement of atoms. However, there are a lot of open questions since to date none of the applied spectroscopic techniques has directly delivered the time-dependent transition state structure. I propose to develop a novel probe that images, one molecule at a time, the full three-dimensional atomic…
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