title: Helicity induction in a bichromophore: a sensitive and practical chiroptical method for absolute configuration determination of aliphatic alcohols.
abstract: [reaction: see text] A practical method for the determination of the absolute configuration of aliphatic secondary alcohols, based on the circular dichroism of the readily available N-(1,8-naphthaloyl)-2-aminobenzoyl (NAB) derivative, is presented. The origin of the induced Cotton effects is traced by ab initio calculations to the dominant helicity of the NAB pi-electron system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan 60 780, Poland. gawronsk@amu.edu.pl
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gawroński
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kwit
authors.forename: Krystyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gawrońska