Directly monitoring the active sites of charge transfer in heterocycles in situ and in real time.

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Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.

Published: January 2019


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Coherent degenerate infrared-infrared-visible sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy provides a powerful label-free sensitive probe for charge transfer active sites in heterocyclic molecules in situ and in real time.

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