Extending the wavelength range for CD experiments had been both considered and instigated as far back as 1970.  Three research groups had created their own "in-house" CD machines, with specialist lamps as their light source, to enable measurements in this range. Synchrotron radiation (SR) had been proposed for use as the light source at a meeting in Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in 1972, however, it took a few years more before this came to fruition.  Two research papers in 1980 reported the collection of CD data using SR as the light source for the experiments.  Specifically, spectra were obtained in wavelength regions into the VUV range, from ~100 nanometers (nm) to ~200 nm, largely unavailable to laboratory-based bench-top spectrophotometers.  Sutherland et. al. focussed on the development of a versatile spectrophotometer capable of measuring CD, amongst other properties, in the VUV region of the spectrum, while Snyder and Rowe collected CD data from a small organic compound in the wavelength range 130.5 nm to 205 nm.