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Part I Introduction
1 General Overview on Vibrational Spectroscopy Applied in
Biology and Medicine ................................................................................
3
Malgorzata Baranska, Maciej Roman and Katarzyna Majzner
2 Integrating Optical Spectroscopy and Chemometric Methods ............. 15
Karolina Jagiełło, Anita Sosnowska, Jan Mazerski and Tomasz Puzyn
Part II New Techniques and Special Applications
3 Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) in Bioscience:
A Review of Application ............................................................................ 29
Jolanta Bukowska and Piotr Piotrowski
4 Raman Optical Activity of Biological Samples ........................................ 61
Katarzyna Chruszcz-Lipska and Ewan W. Blanch
5 α-Amino Acids In Water: A Review Of VCD And Roa Spectra ............ 83
Jan Cz. Dobrowolski, Piotr F.J. Lipiński, Joanna E. Rode
and Joanna Sadlej
6 Electronic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy in Structural
Analysis of Biomolecular Systems ............................................................ 161
Magdalena Pecul and Wojciech Dzwolak
7 Biologically Relevant Molecules Studied in Low
Temperature Inert Matrices ...................................................................... 179
Rui Fausto and Nihal Kuş
Contents
Part I Introduction
1 General Overview on Vibrational Spectroscopy Applied in
Biology and Medicine ................................................................................
3
Malgorzata Baranska, Maciej Roman and Katarzyna Majzner
2 Integrating Optical Spectroscopy and Chemometric Methods ............. 15
Karolina Jagiełło, Anita Sosnowska, Jan Mazerski and Tomasz Puzyn
Part II New Techniques and Special Applications
3 Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) in Bioscience:
A Review of Application ............................................................................ 29
Jolanta Bukowska and Piotr Piotrowski
4 Raman Optical Activity of Biological Samples ........................................ 61
Katarzyna Chruszcz-Lipska and Ewan W. Blanch
5 α-Amino Acids In Water: A Review Of VCD And Roa Spectra ............ 83
Jan Cz. Dobrowolski, Piotr F.J. Lipiński, Joanna E. Rode
and Joanna Sadlej
6 Electronic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy in Structural
Analysis of Biomolecular Systems ............................................................ 161
Magdalena Pecul and Wojciech Dzwolak
7 Biologically Relevant Molecules Studied in Low
Temperature Inert Matrices ...................................................................... 179
Rui Fausto and Nihal Kuş
Contents