Exploration of X-ray magneto-chiral dichroism in lanthanide complexes with strongly chiral helicenes

Studying light-matter interactions broadens our understanding of the fundamental phenomena in nature. It is also envisaged to play an important role in future information technologies, where quantum properties of single molecules will be exploited. Chiral molecular materials are particularly important, as they show various fascinating optical phenomena due to the coupling of local electric fields and molecular magnetic moment. In this proposal we aim to investigate magneto-chiral dichroism in the hard X-ray range (XMChD) in the lantanide complexes with helicenes - strongly chiral organic ligands with axial chirality.
These measurements will show if Ln-helicene compounds are good candidates for XMChD and will help us to understand the factors relevant to get strong effect for new compounds, that will be designed in the future.