Physical and Computational Chemistry

Spectroscopy of Raman optical activity is a relatively new methods revealing structure of molecules including proteins, nucleic acids or even whole viruses. The interpretation of the spectra, however, is very dependent of accurate quantum-mechanical computations. Therefore, we need to develop realistic computational models, including interactions of studied compounds with environment/solvent and so-called anharmonic corrections to vibrational energies.

Literature
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2. Hudecová, J.; Profant, V.; Novotná, P.; Baumruk, V.; Urbanová, M.; Bouř, P. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2013, 9, 3096−3108. "CH Stretching Region: Computational Modeling of Vibrational Optical Activity."