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• News & Views | 24 January 2012

  Manipulating molecules

  Valuable insight into the use of lasers to control electron dynamics can be gained by simulations, but these are often limited by the uncertainty in the model systems used. Now, accurate calculations of controlled electron motion in benzene improve on this, while showing that its aromaticity could potentially be 'switched off'.

  • Katharine Moore
  •  & Herschel Rabitz

• News & Views | 20 April 2011

  Surrounded by complications

  There is a long history of gas-phase studies of bimolecular reactions, but the presence of surrounding molecules complicates analogous studies in solution. Now, advances in ultrafast laser technology have enabled the detailed study of vibrational energy release in a reaction in solution.

  • F. Fleming Crim