The N-Oscillator Born-Kuhn Model: An In-Depth Analysis of Chiro-Optical Properties in Complex Chiral Systems.

A comprehensive theory is developed for the chiral optical response of two configurations of the N-oscillator Born-Kuhn model (NOBK): the helically stacked and the corner stacked models. In the helical NOBK model, there is always a chiral response regardless of the value of , whereas in the corner NOBK, only configurations with even demonstrate a chiral response. Generally, the magnitudes of optical rotatory dispersion (ORD) and circular dichroism (CD) increase with when the parameters of each oscillator are fixed.