Aidan Arnold (@aidan1-137.bsky.social)

So great to see this result officially out - five years after Rob Cameron kicked it all off! Thanks especially to Manos Alexakis and Duncan McArthur in the lab - and of course the whole team. doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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Observation of Rayleigh Optical Activity for Chiral Molecules: A New Chiroptical Tool By measuring a small circularly polarized component in the scattered light, we report the first observation of Rayleigh optical activity (RayOA) for isotropic samples of chiral molecules, namely the two enantiomers of α-pinene in neat liquid form. Our work validates fundamental theoretical predictions made over 50 years ago and expands the chiroptical toolkit. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.5c05516