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Search for Resolution of Chiral Fluorohalogenomethanes and Parity‐Violation Effects at the Molecular Level

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Abstract The first observation of a parity‐violation effect in molecules induced by weak interactions is still a dream that requires the synthesis and, eventually, the resolution of the enantiomers of well‐chosen simple chiral molecules together with an appropriate experimental set‐up for high‐resolution spectroscopy. Performing IR spectroscopy on highly enantiomerically enriched samples of bromochlorofluoromethane succeeded in giving an upper limit of 10 −13 for the relative vibrational energy difference between the two enantiomers. These results led us to conceive a new experimental set‐up based on a supersonic molecular beam and to work on other chiral molecules, such as chlorofluoroiodomethane. A synthesis of (±)‐CHClFI from racemic chlorofluoroiodoacetic acid should, in the near future permit the preparation of optically active samples of this haloform. The development of molecular beam spectroscopy using a two‐photon Ramsey‐fringes experiment should allow us to reach the precision needed to observe parity violation. These experimental challenges, which stimulate a close collaboration between chemists and physicists, are presented. The success of these projects would open the route to new information on the molecular Hamiltonian, a better knowledge of the electroweak interaction, and a better control of the various chirality‐related properties of simple molecules.

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hal-04318829 , version 1 (01-12-2023)

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Jeanne Crassous, Franck Monier, Jean‐pierre Dutasta, Michaël Ziskind, Christophe Daussy, et al.. Search for Resolution of Chiral Fluorohalogenomethanes and Parity‐Violation Effects at the Molecular Level. ChemPhysChem, 2003, 4 (6), pp.541-548. ⟨10.1002/cphc.200200536⟩. ⟨hal-04318829⟩
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