Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Volume 1

Nina Berova is a Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. She has been a coeditor of the journal Chirality (Wiley) since 1998. 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.

• Preface ixContributors xiPart I Introduction 11 On the Interaction of Light with Molecules: Pathways to the Theoretical Interpretation of ChiropticalPhenomena 3Georges H. WagnièrePart II Experimental Methods and Instrumentation 352 Measurement of the Circular Dichroism of Electronic Transitions 37John C. Sutherland3 Circularly Polarized Luminescence Spectroscopy and Emission-detected Circular Dichroism 65James P. Riehl and Gilles Muller4 Solid-state Chiroptical Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications 91Reiko Kuroda and Takunori Harada5 Infrared Vibrational Optical Activity: Measurement and Instrumentation 115Laurence A. Nafie6 Measurement of Raman Optical Activity 147Werner Hug7 Nanosecond Time-resolved Natural and Magnetic Chiroptical Spectroscopies 179David S. Kliger, Eefei Chen, and Robert A. Goldbeck8 Femtosecond Infrared Circular Dichroism and Optical Rotatory Dispersion 203Hanju Rhee and Minhaeng Cho9 Chiroptical Properties of Lanthanide Compounds in an Extended Wavelength Range 221Lorenzo Di Bari and Piero Salvadori10 Near-infrared Vibrational Circular Dichroism: NIR-VCD 247Sergio Abbate, Giovanna Longhi, and Ettore Castiglioni11 Optical Rotation and Intrinsic Optical Activity 275Patrick H. Vaccaro12 Chiroptical Imaging of Crystals 325John Freudenthal, Werner Kaminsky, and Bart Kahr13 Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Chiral Molecules 347Peer Fischer14 In Situ Measurement of Chirality of Molecules and Molecular Assemblies with Surface NonlinearSpectroscopy 373Hong-fei Wang15 Photoelectron Circular Dichroism 407Ivan Powis16 Magnetochiral Dichroism and Birefringence 433G. L. J. A. Rikken17 X-ray Detected Optical Activity 457Jose Goulon, Andrei Rogalev, and Christian Brouder18 Linear Dichroism 493Alison Rodger19 Electro-optical Absorption Spectroscopy 525Hans-Georg Kuball and Matthias StoltePart III Theoretical Simulations 54120 Independent Systems Theory for Predicting Electronic Circular Dichroism 543Gerhard Raabe, Joerg Fleischhauer, and Robert W. Woody21 Ab Initio Electronic Circular Dichroism and Optical Rotatory Dispersion: From Organic Molecules toTransition Metal Complexes 593Jochen Autschbach22 Theoretical Electronic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Large Organic and SupramolecularSystems 643Lars Goerigk, Holger Kruse, and Stefan Grimme23 High-accuracy Quantum Chemistry and Chiroptical Properties 675T. Daniel Crawford24 Ab Initio Methods for Vibrational Circular Dichroism and Raman Optical Activity 699Kenneth Ruud25 Modeling of Solvation Effects on Chiroptical Spectra 729Magdalena Pecul26 Complexation, Solvation, and Chirality Transfer in Vibrational Circular Dichroism 747Valentin Paul Nicu and Evert Jan BaerendsIndex 783