Molecular Optical Activity and the Chiral Discriminations

1. Introduction 2. Optical rotatory dispersion and circular dichroism 3. General mechanisms for optical activity 4. The symmetric chromophore in a chiral molecular environment 5. Inherent dissymmetry 6. Dimers and polymers 7. Chiral transition-metal complexes 8. Vibration optical activity 9. The characterisation of chiral structures 10. Enantiomeric discrimination 11. Chiral energy discrimination.