Types of Spectroscopy

from the website of [the late] Prof. Kent Wilson, UCSD


Optical Rotary Dispersion (ORD)

One uses ORD spectroscopy to determine the handedness of chiral molecules by taking advantage of the fact that right and left handed molecules are effected differently by circularly polarized light.

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