| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,960,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥8,320,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,920,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
It is known that the reactivity and functionality of molecules are strongly governed by the shape of certain molecular orbitals, such as the highest occupied orbital. In this study, we have attempted to develop a method to visualize the molecular orbital shapes of unstable chemical species, which play important roles in chemical reactions and vibrationally excited molecules. We have demonstrated the feasibility of electron momentum spectroscopy experiments on chemical species formed by thermal dissociation, and also succeeded in capturing the distortion of molecular orbitals in response to vibrational excitation. This study has opened up the prospect of extending molecular orbital imaging research, which has been conducted mainly on stable ground states, to excited molecules.
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