Rotational state-selection and alignment of chiral molecules by electrostatic hexapoles

Abstract

Electrostatic hexapoles are revealed as a powerful tool in the rotational state-selection and alignment of molecules to be utilized in beam experiments on collisional and photoinitiated processes. In the paper, we report results on the application of the hexapolar technique on the recently studied chiral molecules propylene oxide, 2-butanol and 2bromobutane, to be investigated in selective photodissociation and enantiomeric discrimination.