chapter 1 Valence Photoelectron Circular Dichroism of Gas Phase Enantiomers / chapter 2 High-Resolution Microwave Spectroscopy of Chiral Molecular Contact Pairs / chapter 3 Infrared and Raman Detection of Transient Chirality Recognition in the Gas Phase / chapter 4 The Role of Deformation Energy of Bifunctional Entities on the Formation of Diastereoisomers / chapter 5 Chiral Recognition in Mass Spectrometry, Focusing on FAB Mass Spectrometry / chapter 6 Enantioselectivity in Gas-Phase Ion-Molecule Reactions / chapter 7 Equilibrium Methods for Characterizing Gas Phase Chiral Recognition / chapter 8 Deoxy Oligonucleotides as Chiral References for the Discrimination of Enantiomeric Amino Acids under Mass Spectrometry -- chapter 9 Evaluating the Enantioselectivity of Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions and Screening Chiral Catalysts by ESI-MS -- chapter 10 Solution Phase vs. Gas Phase Chiral Recognition by ESI-MS / chapter 11 Recognition of Amino Acid Chirality in Polypeptide Ions by MS/MS