Objective
Chemists constantly seek better catalysts that improve performance of desired chemical reactions and suppress the formation of adventitious products. On the other hand, Nature performs difficult reactions using tailored electric fields as catalysts, and so can we! The overarching goal of this project is to impose, measure and utilize microscopic electric fields to fundamentally understand their organization and elucidate their role in driving non-redox chemical reactivity and catalysis.
EFFICACY uses the electric double layer at polarized solid-liquid interfaces to impose strong microscopic electric fields. Despite significant advances in measuring fields projected onto marker vibrational modes (vibrational Stark effect), gaining understanding of the topological complexity (directions, spatial variation) of the three-dimensional electric field vector with Angstrom resolution in its dynamic evolution remains a formidable experimental challenge.
EFFICACY develops a suite of approaches to sense microscopic electric fields based on time-resolved vibrational multidimensional Stark probing and excited-state symmetry breaking in tailored molecular probes. EFFICACY implements ultrabroadband femtosecond infrared (IR) light source capable of simultaneous excitation and probing of many vibrational and electronic transitions across the mid- and near-infrared spectrum.
EFFICACY explores electrostatic catalytic effect in a selection of novel photoreactions using multiscale time-resolved IR spectroscopy spanning many orders of magnitude in time. Ejection of small molecules from novel classes of organic compounds and alkyne-allene photoisomerization aim to understand the through-space field effect on bond-breaking/formation and intramolecular reorganization events. The idea of alternating field chemistry is introduced, where waveform control of chemical reactivity might be a game changer to direct complex multistep processes along the desired pathway without spending any electrons.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2025-STG
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8006 Zurich
Switzerland
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