ozonedepleting

Chemistry

Ultrafast imaging technology reveals how ozone-depleting molecules react to light

A long-predicted ultrafast pathway in the UV photochemistry of bromoform has been visualized for the first time by femtosecond time-resolved electron diffraction. Credit: Melody Li, Debadarshini Mishra, Lars Hoffmann Researchers have observed for the first time how bromoform rearranges its atoms in less than a trillionth of a second after being subjected to an ultraviolet (UV) pulse. The imaging technique…