The chirality of small metabolic molecules is important in controlling physiological processes
and indicating the health status of humans. Abnormal enantiomeric ratios of chiral molecules …

There has been a great interest in understanding the interactions between light and noble
metal nanoparticles ever since Michael Faraday's study of the ruby-red color of colloidal …

Circular dichroism (CD) is an excellent tool for rapid determination of the secondary
structure and folding properties of proteins that have been obtained using recombinant …

Two-dimensional (2D) optical spectroscopy utilizing multiple ultrafast coherent laser pulses
in the infrared or UV-vis frequency range has been used to study protein structure and …

Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy discusses the principles and applications of newly
emerging two-dimensional vibrational and optical spectroscopy techniques. It provides a …

Peptides and proteins are naturally chiral molecular systems so that sensing their structure
and conformation with chirality-based spectral methods is an obvious and long-used …

Molecular aggregates are abundant in nature; they form spontaneously in concentrated
solutions and on surfaces and can be synthesized by supramolecular chemistry techniques …

Advances in the measurement, calculation, and application of vibrational circular dichroism
(VCD) for the determination of absolute configuration are described. The purpose of the …

Determination of the absolute handedness, known as absolute configuration (AC), of chiral
molecules is an important step in any field related to chirality, especially in the …

The period covered by this document is from the beginning of 1995 through late 1997. The
most recent comprehensive review of this topic appeared in 1994 (1) and covered late 1991 …