Deciphering Chiral Phenomena in Complex Environments through Vibrational Optical Activity Fingerprints | Ciência no Rómulo

No dia 11 de junho de 2025 (quarta-feira), às 18h00, em parecia com o CFisUC, acolheremos a palestra Deciphering Chiral Phenomena in Complex Environments through Vibrational Optical Activity Fingerprints, por Yunjie Xu da University of Alberta (Canadá) e Canada Research Chair in Chirality and Chirality Recognition.

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Dr. Xu's research focuses on how various intermolecular interaction forces come together in a concerted way to achieve chirality recognition in such complex environments as aqueous solutions (solutions in which the solvent is water) and metal clusters. To tackle the challenges of achieving quantitative descriptions of complex chirality recognition processes in the real world, Xu has crafted her research to bridge the knowledge gap from the gas phase to aqueous conditions under which most biological events occur. Xu is using and developing highly sophisticated spectroscopic techniques (involving the interaction between matter and radiated energy) to capture chirality recognition processes with unprecedented details in order to gain quantitative insights into these fascinating processes.