ABSTRACT

This book details chiroptical spectroscopic methods: electronic circular dichroism (ECD), optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), vibrational circular dichroism (VCD), and vibrational Raman optical activity (VROA). For each technique, the text presents experimental methods for measurements and theoretical methods for analyzing the experimental data. It also includes a set of experiments that can be adopted for undergraduate teaching laboratories. Each chapter is written in an easy-to-follow format for novice readers, with necessary theoretical formalism in appendices for advanced readers.

chapter 1|16 pages

Polarized Light

chapter 2|20 pages

Chiral Molecules

chapter 5|34 pages

Prediction of Chiroptical Spectra

chapter 6|10 pages

Conformational Analysis

chapter 10|96 pages

Applications of Chiroptical Spectra