Photoinduced chirality of hydrogen peroxide molecules

The feasibility of using nonlinear optical techniques to control the chiral states of molecules is examined with the hydrogen peroxide molecule as an example. Raman excitation of optical activity owing to a transition among states with different chiral symmetries is proposed, along with an experimental scheme for detecting the corresponding photoinduced optical rotation in hydrogen peroxide vapor. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 116, 1250–1263 (October 1999)