Absorption and Rotation of Light by Helical Polymers: The Effect of Chain Length
- 15 March 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 38 (6) , 1317-1325
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1733852
Abstract
The absorption of light and the rotation of polarized light near an absorption band is discussed for finite polymers. Only zero‐order wavefunctions and first‐order energies are considered for the polymer, which is treated as a rigid array of identical groups. The length dependence of the optical properties is calculated. The resulting equations are applied to the polypeptide α helix and 310 helix, polyadenylic acid, and dye complexes with these molecules.Keywords
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