ABSTRACT
To those broadly familiar with the theory or practice of chiral molecular spectroscopies, one of the more recently investigated chiroptical phenomena, photoelectron circular dichroism1 (PECD), may nevertheless be surprising when rst encountered because from randomly oriented, noninteracting molecular enantiomers it routinely yields asymmetry factors ranging from 0.01 to 0.3. Asymmetries of this magnitude exceed those encountered in more traditional circular dichroism (CD) measurements by several orders of magnitude, and so promise a number of advantages associated with the potentially greater ease of detecting such large effects.
