Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy.Vol.2

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

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.