@article{pittir20636, volume = {10}, number = {21}, month = {October}, author = {RK Kondru and CHT Chen and DP Curran and DN Beratan and P Wipf}, title = {Determination of the absolute configuration of 1,3,5,7-tetramethyl-1,3- dihydroindol-2-one by optical rotation computation}, journal = {Tetrahedron Asymmetry}, pages = {4143 -- 4150}, year = {1999}, url = {http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/20636/}, abstract = {The absolute configuration of 1,3,5,7-tetramethyl-1,3-dihydroindol-2-one was determined by quantum chemical calculations of specific rotation angles with coupled-perturbed Hartree-Fock methods. The computation used molecular geometries obtained from ab initio calculations as well as from molecular mechanics and semi-empirical optimization. In addition to the dependence on geometry optimization strategies, the basis set dependence of the computed rotation angle was examined.} }