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Tom and Frank published in Chirality: “Can we still measure circular dichroism with CD spectrometers?”
Lab-based CD spectrometers operate with the belief that a 2nd order Taylor expansion is good enough to model optically active materials, but what happens when you encounter an anistropic structure, as is more often the case. Spoiler: artifacts appear in the spectrum that can’t be removed.
https://doi.org/10.1002/chir.23597