Ligands, induced circular dichroism

A remarkable phenomenon of chiral ligand induced circular dichroism in CdSe quantum dots was reported by M. Balaz et The researchers... 

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Cobalt(lll).—Complexes. Ammine complexes. Optical activity can be induced in the complexes [Co(NH3) ] and [Cofenlj] by means of outer-sphere association with chiral anions, e.g. (- - )-tartrate. Circular dichroism is observed in the d-d bands of the cations and it is suggested that this is due to (a) direct interaction between the chiral anion and the metal f/-orbitals and (b) the preferred conformation adopted by the inner-sphere ligands in the presence of a helical outer-sphere ligand. 

Quadrupole splitting (A q) correlates to electric field gradient and, based on model compounds, can identify some ligand types Can observe changes in ligand field induced by sample perturbation Can only detect iron sites Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra Require low temperature to observe (—2-70 K)... 

A and A" is the same achiral chromophore and B-j and Bj have the same configurational relationship to A in the composite complex as in their respective substituent complexes, the circular dichroism of AB-jBj... is simply the summation of the CD s of A B., A"Bj, etc. The purpose of this effort is to exhibit an achiral 1 chromophore upon which exchange of chiral ligands induces negligible perturbation in the configurational relationship of the chelating ligands, and thus to allow the utility of the predicted additivity to be demonstrated experimentally. 

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