Upper limits for the circular dichroism for the C 1s and O 1s core excitation of methyl oxirane

The circular dichroism (CD) in the total and partial ion yields of methyl-oxirane C3H6O was measured at the C 1s and O 1s edges. The difference of the response of the chiral molecule to circularly polarized light with opposite handedness was found to be less than 0.2% for the total ion yield and less than 0.5% for the partial ion yield. Additionally we tried to find a dipole allowed molecular orientation CD effect by analysing the fragmentation in the forward and backward direction. For this effect we found an upper limit of 1–2% for all abundant ionic fragments.

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