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Science 10 September 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5690, pp. 1575 - 1577
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103195
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Perspectives

CHEMISTRY:
Multidimensional Snapshots of Chemical Dynamics

Albert Stolow and David M. Jonas

Over the past decade, more and more reactions have been probed directly at the ultrafast time scales at which they occur. However, technical constraints meant that these studies were usually limited to a one-dimensional reaction coordinate. In their Perspective, Stolow and Jonas draw attention to a new generation of experiments, which provide insights into the multidimensional evolution of chemical reactions. These experiments have, for example, shed light on the structural evolution of peptides as they fold, and have shown how the electron cloud rearranges on the molecular frame as an atom breaks its bond and leaves the parent molecule.

A. Stolow is at the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada. E-mail: albert.stolow{at}nrc.ca D. M. Jonas is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. E-mail: david.jonas{at}colorado.edu

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