VCD Spectroscopy for Organic Chemists

Stimulated by the increasing importance of chiral molecules as pharmaceuticals and the need for enantiomerically pure drugs, techniques in chiral chemistry have been expanded and refined, especially in the areas of chromatography, asymmetric synthesis, and spectroscopic methods for chiral molecule structural characterization. In addition to synthet

Philip John Stephens and Frank J. Devlin are with the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. James R. Cheeseman works with Gaussian, Inc. in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Introduction to Vibrational Circular Dichroism. The Experimental Measurement of Vibrational Absorption and Vibrational Circular Dichroism. The Theory of IR and VCD Spectra. Ab Initio Methods. Conformational Analysis. Analyses of the IR and VCD Spectra of Conformationally Rigid Molecules. Applications of VCD Spectroscopy to Organic Chemistry.