Chirality: Physical Chemistry

Abstract

INTRODUCTION 1. The Physical Chemistry of Chirality PART 1: VIBRATIONS OF CHIRAL MOLECULES 2. Determination of the Structures of Chiral Molecules Using Vibrational Dichroism Spectroscopy 3. New Insight into Solution Structure and Dynamics of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Viruses from Raman Optical Activity 4. Chirality in Peptide Vibrations: Ab Initio Computational Studies of Length, Solvation, Hydrogen Bond, Dipole Coupling, and Isotope Effects on Vibrational CD 5. Vibrational Transition Current Density: Visualizing the Origin of Vibrational Circular Dichroism and Infrared Intensities 6. The Use of Dual Polarization Modulation in Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy 7. Conformational Study of Gramicidin D in Organic Solvents in the Presence of Cations Using Vibrational Circular Dichroism PART 2: ADVANCES IN SPECTRAL SPECTROSCOPY 8. Optical Activity: From Structure-Function to Structure Prediction 9. Optical Response of a Chiral Liquid 10. Sum-Frequency Generation at Second Order in Isotropic Chiral Systems: The Microscopic View and the Surprising Fragility of the Signal 11. Application of Chiral Symmetries in even-Order Nonlinear Optics 12. X-ray Natural Circular Dichroism: Introduction and First Results 13. X-ray Natural Circular Dichroism: Theory and Recent Developments PART 3: NEW APPROACHES IN CHIRAL RECOGNITION 14. Aspects of Molecular Chirality Observed by Scanning Probe Microscopy 15. Raising Flags: Chemical Marker Group STM Probes of Self-Assembly and Chirality at Liquid-Solid 16. A Spectroscopic Study of Chiral Discrimination in Jet-Cooled van der Waals Complexes PART 4: SURFACE CHIRALITY AND CHIRAL NANOSTRUCTURES 17. Spontaneous Generation of Chirality via Chemistry in Two Dimensions 18. Chirality at Well-Defined Metal Surfaces 19. Enantiospecific Properties of Chiral Single-Crystal Surfaces 20. Single Molecule Absolute Chirality Determination, Isomerization, and Asymmetric Induction at a Silicon Surface 21. Chiral Autocatalysis and Selectivity in the Vicinity of Solid Surfaces 22. Chirality in Giant Phospholipid Tubule Formation INDEXES AUTHOR INDEX SUBJECT INDEX