Optical rotary dispersion

Molecular chirality is most often observed experimentally through its optical activity, which is the elfect on polarized light. The spectroscopic techniques for measuring optical activity are optical rotary dispersion (ORD), circular di-chroism (CD), and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD). 

As in tic, another method to vaUdate a chiral separation is to collect the individual peaks and subject them to some type of optical spectroscopy, such as, circular dichroism or optical rotary dispersion. Enantiomers have mirror image spectra (eg, the negative maxima for one enantiomer corresponds to the positive maxima for the other enantiomer). One problem with this approach is that the analytes are diluted in the mobile phase. Thus, the sample must be injected several times. The individual peaks must be collected and subsequently concentrated to obtain adequate concentrations for spectral analysis. 

C. Djerassi, Optical Rotary Dispersion, Applications to Organic Chemistry, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960. 

Infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultraviolet, optical rotary dispersion and circular dichroism measurements have been used for the spectral analysis of thiiranes. A few steroidal thiiranes have been reported to possess infrared absorption in the range from 580 to 700 cm The intermediate thiocyanate derivatives (RSCN) have a strong sharp peak at 2130-2160 cm the isomeric isothiocyanate (RNCS) shows a much stronger but broad band at 2040-2180 cm. ... 

My interest at that time revolved around evaluating optical rotary dispersion data [12]. The paired values of optical rotation vs. wavelength were used to fit a function called the Drude equation (later modified to the Moffitt equation for William Moffitt [Harvard University] who developed the theory) [13]. The coefficients of the evaluated equation were shown to be related to a significant ultraviolet absorption band of a protein and to the amount of alpha-helix conformation existing in the solution of it. 

Thus cooling-warming cycles, suitably induced, allowed temporal resolution of the reaction, step by step. The absorption, optical rotary dispersion, and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra of pure compounds I and II were then recorded and found to be similar to those obtained under fast-reaction conditions (Douzou et al., 1970 Douzou and Leter-rier, 1970). Additional interesting observations were made possible by the low-temperature technique for instance, instead of making the time scale of reactions feasible exp>erimentally by increasing the substrate concentrations as in fast techniques, reactions at low temperatures could be performed with stoichiometric concentrations of enzyme. Such con-... 

Cholesteric lyotropic mesophases of cellulose in LiCl-DMAC solutions at 1(>-15% (w/w) concentration have been observed by Ciferri and coworkers (19.59.61.62) and McCormick et al. (63). LiCl/DMAC ratios between 3/97 and 11/89 (w/w) were used. LiCl-DMAC does not degrade cellulose and does not react with the polymer (59). It does form a complex with the OH CToups on cellulose which is believed to result in dissolution (62). Optical rotary dispersions are negative, indicating the superhelicoidal structure has a left-handed twist. 

The use of optical rotary dispersion and circular di-chroism also provide means for determining configurations. 

Optical Rotary Dispersion and Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy.154... 

Rotation of the polarization plane (or the axes of the dichroic ellipse) by a small angle a occurs when the phases for the two circular components become different, which requires a difference in the refractive index n (Pearlman and Nguyen 1991). This effect is called circular birefringence. The change of optical rotation with wavelength is called optical rotary dispersion (ORD). 

For example, by optical rotary dispersion studies, Mislow has shown that Reaction 4.33 goes with 100 percent inversion of configuration.64... 

The usual stereochemical course for substitution on tetracoordinated sulfur seems to be inversion.76,77 For example, Sabol and Andersen showed, by optical rotary dispersion measurements, that the product of reaction 4.39 has the configuration opposite to that of the starting material.78... 

Fujita, J. Shimura, Y. Spectroscopy and structures of metal chelate compounds. In Optical Rotary Dispersion and Circular Dichroism Nakamoto, K., McCarthy, P., Eds. Wiley, 1968 pp 156-215. 

Optical Rotary Dispersion, Recent Applications in Organic Chemistry (Crabbe).. 1 93... 

Doty, P., and J. T. Yang The optical rotary dispersion of polypeptides and... 

Simpson was a Bathurst Research Student from 1934 to 1936, following which, with a Travelling Scholarship, she spent 1937 to 1939 undertaking research at the University of Vienna. Her initial research had been in the field of optical rotary dispersion and circular dichroism, but she discovered that she found spectroscopy much more interesting. Before the Second World War, she studied the spectra of small molecules in the vacuum ultraviolet but with the onset of war, she shifted to infrared spectroscopy. This technique was used to analyse samples of enemy fuels for the Air Ministry, in particular to identify the use of synthetic oils in place of natural oil, which, because of the naval blockades, was in very short supply in Germany. 

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