Chiral clusters spectroscopy

Time-resolved FTIR spectra of Rh4(CO)12 subjected to 266 nm. irradiation in heptane gave evidence for the formation of two isomeric forms of Rh4(CO)n(solv).144 Vibrational assignments were made to vCO modes for gas-phase rhodium cluster carbonyls using IR multiphoton depletion spectroscopy. For Rhn(CO), vCO was at 1950 2 cm-1 (n = 6), 1960-1965 cm-1 (n = 7-11 13-20).145 TRIR data (vCO) were used to follow the formation of intrinsically chiral clusters Rh6(CO)i4(p,K2-PX), where PX = bidentate bridging ligands diphenyl(benzothienyl)phosphine and related systems.146... 

K. Le Barbu Debus, F. Lahmani, A. Zehnacker Rentien, N. Guchhait, S. S. Panja, and T. Chakraborty, Fluorescence spectroscopy of jet cooled chiral (+/ ) indan 1 ol and its cluster with (+/ ) methyl and ethyl lactate. J. Chem. Phys. 125, 174305 (2006). 

The isolated enantiomers S (M ) and R (Mr) of a chiral molecule M exhibit the same spectral features since their physical properties are identical. However, their aggregation with a chiral chromophore of defined configuration (Cr/s) leads to the formation of two diastereomeric complexes with different spectral properties, i.e., and [C /yM ]. The lcR2PI spectroscopy is able to discriminate between Mj and by measuring the spectral shift of the diastereomeric [C /yM ] and [Cj5/5-Mj ] complexes with respect to that of the bare chromophore Cr/s- It is convenient to define the diastereomeric clusters as homochiral when the chromophore and the solvent have the same configuration, and heterochiral in the opposite case. 

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