Optical rotation: Recent advances in determining the absolute configuration

Chirality

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 768-781

  Polavarapu, Prasad L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ab initio; Absolute configuration; Optical rotation; Quantum mechancal predictions; Specific rotation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER; CONFORMATION; OPTICAL ROTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036034678     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.10145     Document Type: Review

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