A Chemical/Computational Approach to the Determination of Absolute Configuration of Flexible and Transparent Molecules: Aliphatic Diols As a Case Study
electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra, which show several (up to five) Cotton effects in the 350−200 nm range due to valence shell π→π* transitions. These features allow simulation of the chiropticalproperties of these compounds at the TDDFT/B3LYP/6-31G* level of theory to obtain, using the known ACs of these compounds, a satisfactory reproduction of the OR values (sign and order of magnitude; quantitatively