| With short high intense light pulses direct access to electron dynamics has become possible. We focus on the question whether and when it is possible to control chemical reactions by steering electronic wavepackets. In this context we will outline specific requirements that have to be fulfilled to allow for a successful synchronization of the slower nuclear wavepacket motion and the fast electron dynamics. To this extend we developed an efficient approach, which exploits quantum dynamics and quantum chemistry in a new way to simultaneously describe the dynamics of nuclear and electron motion and allows for the treatment of multi-electron systems. First results for the dissociative dynamics of CO+ will be discussed as well as promising scenarios of large scale molecules. |
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