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Chiral Control of Current Transfer in Molecules

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Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Chiral Molecules and Supramolecular Architectures

Part of the book series: Topics in Current Chemistry ((TOPCURRCHEM,volume 298))

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Electron transmission through chiral molecules induced by circularly polarized light can be very different for mirror image structures. This behavior is described in terms of current transfer: the transfer of both charge and momentum. We review recent theoretical developments on the theory of current transfer and discuss related experimental studies of electron transmission through chiral molecular structures adsorbed on surfaces.

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    Au photoelectrons are spin polarized due to the high spin-orbit coupling of the metal. Therefore, an alternative mechanism for the transmission asymmetry obseved in [36] could be based on changes in the photoelectron spin angular momentum. We do not attribute the yield asymmetry to spin polarization because the stearoyl-lysine monolayers in [36] contain only low atomic number atoms that do not scatter spin.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (CHE-1012357, DNB), the Israel Science Foundation, the German-Israel Foundation and the ERC and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (AN), the University of Cyprus (SSS) and the Israel Minisry of Science for a fellowship received under the program for Progressing Women in Science (VBM).

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  1. School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Vered Ben-Moshe & Abraham Nitzan

  2. Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

    David N. Beratan

  3. Department of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

    David N. Beratan

  4. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

    David N. Beratan

  5. Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 1678, Cyprus

    Spiros S. Skourtis

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  1. Dept. Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Ron Naaman

  2. Duke University, Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, 101 Science Drive, Durham, NC, 27708, USA

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  3. Chevron Science Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Parkman Avenue 219, Pittsburgh, 15260, Pennsylvania, USA

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Ben-Moshe, V., Beratan, D.N., Nitzan, A., Skourtis, S.S. (2010). Chiral Control of Current Transfer in Molecules. In: Naaman, R., Beratan, D., Waldeck, D. (eds) Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Chiral Molecules and Supramolecular Architectures. Topics in Current Chemistry, vol 298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/128_2010_101

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