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 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

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