Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2017,8, 325–333, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.35
synthetic chemistry and molecularquantumoptics has enabled demonstrations of the quantum mechanical wave–particle duality for complex particles, with masses exceeding 10 kDa. Future experiments with even larger objects will require new optical preparation and manipulation methods that shall profit from
the possibility to cleave a well-defined molecular tag from a larger parent molecule. Here we present the design and synthesis of two model compounds as well as evidence for the photoinduced beam depletion in high vacuum in one case.
Keywords: molecularquantumoptics; photodepletion
objects. Both will be crucial for molecularquantumoptics and future matter-wave experiments. An open future challenge will be to explore how well this method scales with the size of particles from individual monomer to trimers, chromophore-labelled biomolecules up to decorated viruses, as displayed as
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Figure 1:
Sketch of the photocleavable 2-(phenoxymethyl)-1-nitrobenzene subunit and its intramolecular photon...