Probing X-ray Magneto-Chiral Dichroism in a Chiral Molecular Ferrimagnet

Magneto-Chiral Dichroism (MChD) represents a fascinating enantioselective manifestation of light-chiral matter interaction that can be observed when chiral systems are placed in a magnetic field. Important advancements in the understanding the physico-chemical and structural ingredients needed to observe MChD on molecular magnetic systems have been achieved using UV-Vis-NIR light, while observations of MChD with X-ray radiations are still rare. Furthermore, experiments focused on the observation of MChD on the same system, but with two extremely different radiation sources, Visible light and X-rays, have never been reported so far. This is the aim of this proposal. We aim at detecting MChD at the Mn and Cr K-edges of a MnIICrIII-based chiral ferrimagnet previously investigated with Visible light. The objective is to find a correlation between the MChD response of outer and inner shell electronic transitions and shed light on the origin of this effect.