Comprehensive chiroptical spectroscopy

This book provides an introduction to the important methods of chiroptical spectroscopy in general, and circular dichroism (CD) in particular, which are increasingly important in all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, and structural biology. The book can be used as a text for undergraduate and graduate students and as a reference for researchers in academia and industry, with or without the companion volume in this set.

Frontmatter -- Color Plates -- A Historical Overview. The First Decades after the Discovery of CD and ORD by Aim̌ Cotton in 1895 / Peter Laur -- Organic Stereochemistry. Some Inherently Chiral Chromophores--Empirical Rules and Quantum Chemical Calculations / Marcin Kwit, Pawel Skowronek, Jacek Gawronski, Jadwiga Frelek, Magdalena Woznica, Aleksandra Butkiewicz -- Electronic CD of Benzene and other Aromatic Chromophores for Determination of Absolute Configuration / Tibor Kurt̀n, S̀ndor Antus, Gennaro Pescitelli -- Electronic CD Exciton Chirality Method: Principles and Applications / Nobuyuki Harada, Koji Nakanishi, Nina Berova -- CD Spectra of Chiral Extended p-Electron Compounds: Theoretical Determination of the Absolute Stereochemistry and Experimental Verification / Nobuyuki Harada, Shunsuke Kuwahara -- Assignment of the Absolute Configurations of Natural Products by Means of Solid-State Electronic Circular Dichroism and Quantum Mechanical Calculations / Gennaro Pescitelli, Tibor Kurt̀n, Karsten Krohn -- Dynamic Stereochemistry and Chiroptical Spectroscopy of Metallo-Organic Compounds / James W Canary, Zhaohua Dai -- Circular Dichroism of Dynamic Systems: Switching Molecular and Sup…