{"id":756626,"date":"2023-05-26T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=756626"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:38:00","slug":"in-a-first-researchers-capture-fleeting-transition-state-in-ring-shaped-molecules-excited-by-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=756626","title":{"rendered":"In a first, researchers capture fleeting &#039;transition state&#039; in ring-shaped molecules excited by light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using a high-speed &#8220;electron camera&#8221; at the Department of Energy&#8217;s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and cutting-edge quantum simulations, scientists have directly imaged a photochemical &#8220;transition state,&#8221; a specific configuration of a molecule&#8217;s atoms determining the chemical outcome, during a ring-opening reaction in the molecule \u03b1-terpinene. This is the first time that scientists have precisely tracked molecular structure through a photochemical ring-opening reaction, triggered when light energy is absorbed by a substance&#8217;s molecules.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-05-capture-fleeting-transition-state-ring-shaped.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In a first, researchers capture fleeting &#8216;transition state&#8217; in ring-shaped molecules excited by light<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a high-speed &#8220;electron camera&#8221; at the Department of Energy&#8217;s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and cutting-edge quantum simulations, scientists have directly imaged a photochemical &#8220;transition state,&#8221; a specific configuration of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}