From owner-chemistry |-at-| ccl.net Thu Nov 3 12:24:00 2005 From: "Dr. N. SUKUMAR nagams^^^rpi.edu" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Summary-- Circular Dichroism (CD) Message-Id: <-29873-051103120118-8605-nUxkbFmo0qo53BW4pJ/AZw{}server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Dr. N. SUKUMAR" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:01:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: "Dr. N. SUKUMAR" [nagams * rpi.edu] The book by D.P. Craig and T. Thirunamachandran, "Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics: An Introduction to Radiation-Molecule Interactions" (Academic, London, 1984) contains a good pedagogical exposition of the fundamental quantum mechanics of circular dichroism, magnetic CD and induced CD (in the chapter on Optical Activity). Dr. N. Sukumar Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute