NATURAL CIRCULAR-DICHROISM AT THE ND L-3 EDGE IN SINGLE-CRYSTALS OF NA3ND(C4H4O5)(3)2NABF(4)6H(2)O

Authors
ALAGNA L GOULON J GOULONGINET C PEACOCK RD PROSPERI T ROGALEV A STEWART B TURCHINI S
Citation
L. Alagna et al., NATURAL CIRCULAR-DICHROISM AT THE ND L-3 EDGE IN SINGLE-CRYSTALS OF NA3ND(C4H4O5)(3)2NABF(4)6H(2)O, Journal de physique. IV, 7(C2), 1997, pp. 463-464
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Journal de physique. IV → ACNP
ISSN journal
11554339
Volume
7
Issue
C2
Year of publication
1997
Part
1
Pages
463 - 464
Database
ISI
SICI code
1155-4339(1997)7:C2<463:NCATNL>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We report the first attempt to detect natural circular dichroism (CD) in single crystals in the X-ray region using the unique circularly pol arised beamline BL-6A at ESRF. Measurements have been made at the Nd L -3 edge on single crystals of Na3Nd(C4H4O5)(3) 2NaBF(4) 6H(2)O, which crystallises in the enantiomorphic spacegroup R32. Preliminary data an alysis shows that there is a residual CD which has opposite sign for e nantiomeric crystals and a dissymetry factor of around 5 x 10(-3) whic h is close to the value predicted for natural CD.