PREFACE ........................................................ xi
CONTRIBUTORS ................................................. xiii
PART I A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW ................................... 1
1 THE FIRST DECADES AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF CD AND ORD BY
АIМÉ 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 Kurtán, Sándor 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 π-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 Kurtán, 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 Götz, 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 Kejnovská, Klara Bednářová, and
Michaela Vorlíčková
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
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