Visualizations of Electric and Magnetic Interactions in Electronic Circular Dichroism and Raman Optical Activity

Abstract

The chiral source and its mechanism in the molecular system are of great significance in many fields. In this work, we proposed visualized methods to investigate the physical mechanism of a chiral molecule, where the electric and magnetic interactions are visualized with the transitional electric dipole moment, the transitional magnetic dipole moment, and the transitional electric quadrupole moment, and their tensor product. This will also serve as an effective means of visualizing the interaction of light with matter. The relationship between the molecular Raman optical activity (ROA) response and molecular structure was analyzed in an intuitive way. The relationship between chromophore chirality and molecular vibration mode are revealed via interaction between the transition electric dipole moment and the transition magnetic dipole moment. The molecular chirality is derived from the anisotropy of the molecular transition electric dipole moment and the transition magnetic dipole moment. The anisotropic dipole moment localized molecular chromophore is the source of the vibration mode in which the ROA responds to the reverse.