Determination of absolute configuration - An overview related to this special issue

Chirality

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 606-608

  Allenmark, Stig ^a   Gawronski, Jacek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ab initio computational (TD DFT) methods; Circular dichroism (ECD, VCD); Crystal growth; Enzymatic methods; Helical cholesteric phases; NMR anisotropy effects; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL ROTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 43249129867     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: 1520636X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.20524     Document Type: Review

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