Laser studies of chiral molecules

Laser ablated chiral molecules and their clusters are studied by mass resolved R2PI technique. Attractive (electrostatic and polarization) and repulsive (steric) interaction influence both the shift and the binding energy of the complexes. In monofuctional systems, the homochiral complexes are found to be more stable than the heterochiral ones. The formation of stable L-Tyrosine-Aluminum (Al-Tyr) cluster in a supersonic beam expansion of a laser ablated Al-Tyr target has been observed.