Subject: chirality

From: Mario Citra <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 May 97 11:47 EST

S. Shapiro wrote:
"Question 2:  I would like to know if there is some established quantitative
measure of the "degree" of chirality."

One way to quantify this is with rotational strength and dichroism.  Chiral
molecules exhibit dichroism (circular), and this is quantified by the
rotational strength which is a quantum mechanical property.  The rotational
strength is the imaginary part of the dot product of electric dipole
transition moment and magnetic dipole transition moment.

Regards,
Mario J. Citra 
Syracuse Research Corporation
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Regards,
Mario J. Citra  PhD
Syracuse Research Corporation
Merrill Lane
Syracuse, New York 13210-4080

phone 315-426-3462
fax   315-426-3429
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