Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, 2 Volume Set

This two-volume set 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 set 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. Experimental methods and instrumentation are described with topics ranging from the most widely used methods (electronic and vibrational CD) to frontier areas such as nonlinear spectroscopy and photoelectron CD, as well as the theory of chiroptical methods and techniques for simulating chiroptical properties. Each chapter is written by one or more leading authorities with extensive experience in the field.

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Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Volume 1

PREFACE ix

CONTRIBUTORS xi

PART I INTRODUCTION 1

1 ON THE INTERACTION OF LIGHT WITH MOLECULES: PATHWAYS TO THE THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION OF CHIROPTICAL PHENOMENA 3
Georges H. Wagnière

PART II EXPERIMENTAL METHODSANDINSTRUMENTATION 35

2 MEASUREMENT OF THE CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS 37
John C. Sutherland

3 CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY AND EMISSION-DETECTED CIRCULAR DICHROISM 65
James P. Riehl and Gilles Muller

4 SOLID-STATE CHIROPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS 91
Reiko Kuroda and Takunori Harada

5 INFRARED VIBRATIONAL OPTICAL ACTIVITY: MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION 115
Laurence A. Nafie

6 MEASUREMENT OF RAMAN OPTICAL ACTIVITY 147
Werner Hug

7 NANOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED NATURAL AND MAGNETIC CHIROPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIES 179
David S. Kliger, Eefei Chen, and Robert A. Goldbeck

8 FEMTOSECOND INFRARED CIRCULAR DICHROISM AND OPTICAL ROTATORY DISPERSION 203
Hanju Rhee and Minhaeng Cho

9 CHIROPTICAL PROPERTIES OF LANTHANIDE COMPOUNDS IN AN EXTENDED WAVELENGTH RANGE 221
Lorenzo Di Bari and Piero Salvadori

10 NEAR-INFRARED VIBRATIONAL CIRCULAR DICHROISM: NIR-VCD 247
Sergio Abbate, Giovanna Longhi, and Ettore Castiglioni

11 OPTICAL ROTATION AND INTRINSIC OPTICAL ACTIVITY 275
Patrick H. Vaccaro

12 CHIROPTICAL IMAGING OF CRYSTALS 325
John Freudenthal, Werner Kaminsky, and Bart Kahr

13 NONLINEAR OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF CHIRAL MOLECULES 347
Peer Fischer

14 IN SITU MEASUREMENT OF CHIRALITY OF MOLECULES AND MOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES WITH SURFACE NONLINEAR SPECTROSCOPY 373
Hong-fei Wang

15 PHOTOELECTRON CIRCULAR DICHROISM 407
Ivan Powis

16 MAGNETOCHIRAL DICHROISM AND BIREFRINGENCE 433
G. L. J. A. Rikken

17 X-RAY DETECTED OPTICAL ACTIVITY 457
Jose Goulon, Andrei Rogalev, and Christian Brouder

18 LINEAR DICHROISM 493
Alison Rodger

19 ELECTRO-OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY 525
Hans-Georg Kuball and Matthias Stolte

PART III THEORETICAL SIMULATIONS 541

20 INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS THEORY FOR PREDICTING ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM 543
Gerhard Raabe, Joerg Fleischhauer, and Robert W. Woody

21 AB INITIO ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM AND OPTICAL ROTATORY DISPERSION: FROM ORGANIC MOLECULES TO TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES 593
Jochen Autschbach

22 THEORETICAL ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY OF LARGE ORGANIC AND SUPRAMOLECULAR SYSTEMS 643
Lars Goerigk, Holger Kruse, and Stefan Grimme

23 HIGH-ACCURACY QUANTUM CHEMISTRY AND CHIROPTICAL PROPERTIES 675
T. Daniel Crawford

24 AB INITIO METHODS FOR VIBRATIONAL CIRCULAR DICHROISM AND RAMAN OPTICAL ACTIVITY 699
Kenneth Ruud

25 MODELING OF SOLVATION EFFECTS ON CHIROPTICAL SPECTRA 729
Magdalena Pecul

26 COMPLEXATION, SOLVATION, AND CHIRALITY TRANSFER IN VIBRATIONAL CIRCULAR DICHROISM 747
Valentin Paul Nicu and Evert Jan Baerends

INDEX 783

Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Volume 2

PREFACE xi

CONTRIBUTORS xiii

PART I A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 1

1 THE FIRST DECADES AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF CD AND ORD BY AIME COTTON IN 1895 3
Peter Laur

PART II ORGANIC STEREOCHEMISTRY 37

2 SOME INHERENTLY CHIRAL CHROMOPHORES—EMPIRICAL RULES AND QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS 39
Marcin Kwit, Pawel Skowronek, Jacek Gawronski, Jadwiga Frelek, Magdalena Woznica, and Aleksandra Butkiewicz

3 ELECTRONIC CD OF BENZENE AND OTHER AROMATIC CHROMOPHORES FOR DETERMINATION OF ABSOLUTE CONFIGURATION 73
Tibor Kurtan, Sandor Antus, and Gennaro Pescitelli

4 ELECTRONIC CD EXCITON CHIRALITY METHOD: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS 115
Nobuyuki Harada, Koji Nakanishi, and Nina Berova

5 CD SPECTRA OF CHIRAL EXTENDED p-ELECTRON COMPOUNDS: THEORETICAL DETERMINATION OF THE ABSOLUTE STEREOCHEMISTRY AND EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION 167
Nobuyuki Harada and Shunsuke Kuwahara

6 ASSIGNMENT OF THE ABSOLUTE CONFIGURATIONS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS BY MEANS OF SOLID-STATE ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM AND QUANTUM MECHANICAL CALCULATIONS 217
Gennaro Pescitelli, Tibor Kurtan, and Karsten Krohn

7 DYNAMIC STEREOCHEMISTRY AND CHIROPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF METALLO-ORGANIC COMPOUNDS 251
James W. Canary and Zhaohua Dai

8 CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS: SWITCHING MOLECULAR AND SUPRAMOLECULAR CHIRALITY 289
Angela Mammana, Gregory T. Carroll, and Ben L. Feringa

9 ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF SUPRAMOLECULAR SYSTEMS 317
Cheng Yang and Yoshihisa Inoue

10 THE ONLINE STEREOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF CHIRAL COMPOUNDS BY HPLC-ECD COUPLING IN COMBINATION WITH QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS 355
Gerhard Bringmann, Daniel Gotz, and Torsten Bruhn

11 DETERMINATION OF THE STRUCTURES OF CHIRAL NATURAL PRODUCTS USING VIBRATIONAL CIRCULAR DICHROISM 387
Prasad L. Polavarapu

12 DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR ABSOLUTE CONFIGURATION: GUIDELINES FOR SELECTING A SUITABLE CHIROPTICAL APPROACH 421
Stefano Superchi, Carlo Rosini, Giuseppe Mazzeo, and Egidio Giorgio

PART III INORGANIC STEREOCHEMISTRY 449

13 APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM TO INORGANIC STEREOCHEMISTRY 451
Sumio Kaizaki

PART IV BIOMOLECULES 473

14 ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF PROTEINS 475
Robert W. Woody

15 ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF PEPTIDES 499
Claudio Toniolo, Fernando Formaggio, and Robert W. Woody

16 ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF PEPTIDOMIMETICS 545
Claudio Toniolo and Fernando Formaggio

17 CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY OF NUCLEIC ACIDS 575
Jaroslav Kypr, Iva Kejnovska, Klara Bednarova, and Michaela Vorlickova

18 ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS AND THEIR ANALOGUES 587
Roberto Corradini, Tullia Tedeschi, Stefano Sforza, and Rosangela Marchelli

19 CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF PROTEIN–NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTIONS 615
Donald M. Gray

20 DRUG AND NATURAL PRODUCT BINDING TO NUCLEIC ACIDS ANALYZED BY ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM 635
George A. Ellestad

21 PROBING HSA AND AGP DRUG-BINDING SITES BY ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM 665
Miklos Simonyi

22 CONFORMATIONAL STUDIES OF BIOPOLYMERS, PEPTIDES, PROTEINS, AND NUCLEIC ACIDS. A ROLE FOR VIBRATIONAL CIRCULAR DICHROISM 707
Timothy A. Keiderling and Ahmed Lakhani

23 STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR OF BIOMOLECULES FROM RAMAN OPTICAL ACTIVITY 759
Laurence D. Barron and Lutz Hecht

24 OPTICAL ROTATION, ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM, AND VIBRATIONAL CIRCULAR DICHROISM OF CARBOHYDRATES AND GLYCOCONJUGATES 795
Tohru Taniguchi and Kenji Monde

25 ELECTRONIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM IN DRUG DISCOVERY 819
Carlo Bertucci and Marco Pistolozzi

INDEX 843

Prasad L. Polavarapu is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University.

Koji Nakanishi is one of the world's leading natural products chemists and was editor of the journal, The Chemical Record (Wiley). He retired from Columbia University in 2007, but continues to conduct research.

Robert W. Woody is an Emeritus Professor at Colorado State University.

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