NRC, uOttawa scientists first to watch a chemical bond break using molecule's electrons

28 July 2010, 10:27 am

Scientists at the National Research Council of Canada and the University of Ottawa followed a bromine chemical bond as it broke apart using a technique developed earlier at NRC in which an image was obtained of single molecular orbital. The experiment, reported in the July 29 edition of Nature, used an attosecond-duration X-ray burst to take a snapshot of the atom's position as the molecule fell ...... Read More »

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