Linear and Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy

Sinee the time of Louis Pasteur it was known that if a beam of linearly polarized light goes through one enantiomer of a ehiral species, the polarization plane undergoes a rotation of a certain angle [1, 2]. This phenomenon is known as 

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Ruban AV, Calkoen F, Kwa SLS, van Grondelle R, Horton P and Dekker JP(1997a) Characterisation of LHCII in the aggregated state by linear and circular dichroism spectroscopy. Biochim Biophys Acta 1321 61-70... 

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