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Krupová M, Leszczenko P, Sierka E, Hamplová SE, Klepetářová B, Pelc R, Andrushchenko V. Vibrational circular dichroism of adenosine crystals. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 319:124381. [PMID: 38838602 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.124381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Revised: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 04/28/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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Adenosine is one of the building blocks of nucleic acids and other biologically important molecules. Spectroscopic methods have been among the most utilized techniques to study adenosine and its derivatives. However, most of them deal with adenosine in solution. Here, we present the first vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopic study of adenosine crystals in solid state. Highly regular arrangement of adenosine molecules in a crystal resulted in a strongly enhanced supramolecular VCD signal originating from long-range coupling of vibrations. The data suggested that adenosine crystals, in contrast to guanosine ones, do not imbibe atmospheric water. Relatively large dimensions of the adenosine crystals resulted in scattering and substantial orientational artifacts affecting the spectra. Several strategies for tackling the artifacts have been proposed and tested. Atypical features in IR absorption spectra of crystalline adenosine (e.g., extremely low absorption in mid-IR spectral range) were observed and attributed to refractive properties of adenosine crystals.
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- Monika Krupová
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic; Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic; Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 2, 30-387 Kraków, Poland; Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic; Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 2, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic; Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Ruská 87, 10000 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic.
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Sklenář A, Růžičková L, Schrenková V, Bednárová L, Pazderková M, Chatziadi A, Zmeškalová Skořepová E, Šoóš M, Kaminský J. Solid-state vibrational circular dichroism for pharmaceutical applications: Polymorphs and cocrystal of sofosbuvir. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 318:124478. [PMID: 38788502 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.124478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 05/06/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
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X-ray diffraction is a commonly used technique in the pharmaceutical industry for the determination of the atomic and molecular structure of crystals. However, it is costly, sometimes time-consuming, and it requires a considerable degree of expertise. Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy resolves these limitations, while also exhibiting substantial sensitivity to subtle modifications in the conformation and molecular packaging in the solid state. This study showcases VCD's ability to differentiate between various crystal structures of the same molecule (polymorphs, cocrystals). We examined the most effective approach for producing high-quality spectra and unveiled the intricate link between structure and spectrum via quantum-chemical computations. We rigorously assessed, using alanine as a model compound, multiple experimental conditions on the resulting VCD spectra, with the aim of proposing an optimal and efficient procedure. The proposed approach, which yields reliable, reproducible, and artifact-free results with maximal signal-to-noise ratio, was then validated using a set comprising of three amino acids (serine, alanine, tyrosine), one hydroxy acid (tartaric acid), and a monosaccharide (ribose) to mimic active pharmaceutical components. Finally, the optimized approach was applied to distinguish three polymorphs of the antiviral drug sofosbuvir and its cocrystal with piperazine. Our results indicate that solid-state VCD is a prompt, cost-effective, and easy-to-use technique to identify crystal structures, demonstrating potential for application in pharmaceuticals. We also adapted the cluster and transfer approach to calculate the spectral properties of molecules in a periodic crystal environment. Our findings demonstrate that this approach reliably produces solid-state VCD spectra of model compounds. Although for large molecules with many atoms per unit cell, such as sofosbuvir, this approach has to be simplified and provides only a qualitative match, spectral calculations, and energy analysis helped us to decipher the observed differences in the experimental spectra of sofosbuvir.
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- Adam Sklenář
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic; University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, Prague 166 28, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic; Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, Prague 166 28, Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, Prague 166 28, Czech Republic; Institute of Physics of the CAS, Na Slovance 1999/2, Prague 182 21, Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, Prague 166 28, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic.
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Bowles J, Jähnigen S, Agostini F, Vuilleumier R, Zehnacker A, Calvo F, Clavaguéra C. Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy with a Classical Polarizable Force Field: Alanine in the Gas and Condensed Phases. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202300982. [PMID: 38318765 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Revised: 02/05/2024] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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Polarizable force fields are an essential component for the chemically accurate modeling of complex molecular systems with a significant degree of fluxionality, beyond harmonic or perturbative approximations. In this contribution we examine the performance of such an approach for the vibrational spectroscopy of the alanine amino acid, in the gas and condensed phases, from the Fourier transform of appropriate time correlation functions generated along molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories. While the infrared (IR) spectrum only requires the electric dipole moment, the vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectrum further requires knowledge of the magnetic dipole moment, for which we provide relevant expressions to be used with polarizable force fields. The AMOEBA force field was employed here to model alanine in the neutral and zwitterionic isolated forms, solvated by water or nitrogen, and as a crystal. Within this framework, comparison of the electric and magnetic dipole moments to those obtained with nuclear velocity perturbation theory based on density-functional theory for the same MD trajectories are found to agree well with one another. The statistical convergence of the IR and VCD spectra is examined and found to be more demanding in the latter case. Comparisons with experimental frequencies are also provided for the condensed phases.
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- Jessica Bowles
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique UMR8000, 91405, Orsay, France
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- PASTEUR Laboratory, Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 75005, Paris, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique UMR8000, 91405, Orsay, France
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- PASTEUR Laboratory, Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 75005, Paris, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay UMR8214, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique UMR8000, 91405, Orsay, France
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Rode JE, Wasilczenko J, Górecki M. Differentiation of solvatomorphs of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) by solid-state vibrational circular dichroism (VCD). SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 310:123851. [PMID: 38295593 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.123851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024]
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Here, we present the new application of solid-state Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy to differentiate several dutasteride (DS) solvatomorphs - the model active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). Several crystalline DS hydrochloride hydrates solvated with methanol, ethanol, acetonitrile, acetone, and acetic acid were prepared. In contrast to almost identical IR spectra, the VCD ones were very sensitive to changes in the sample composition. We marked significant differences in the shape of VCD spectra of studied DS solvatomorphs, DS hydrates, and DS polymorphic forms. Our findings, supported by DFT calculations, show that VCD spectroscopy has the pronounced ability to distinguish their crystal arrangements. We believe that this contribution will extend the use of VCD in the pharmaceutical industry for developing and designing new chiral drug products for the identification, description, and in-depth probing of several pharmaceutical solvatomorphs in the future.
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- Joanna E Rode
- Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Dorodna 16 St., 03-195 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52 St., 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52 St., 01-224 Warsaw, Poland.
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Rode JE, Łyczko K, Kaczorek D, Kawęcki R, Dobrowolski JC. VCD spectra of chiral naphthalene-1-carboxamides in the solid-state. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 310:123939. [PMID: 38301569 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.123939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 01/20/2024] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
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The VCD spectra of chiral 2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[de]isoquinolin-1-one (8-substituted naphthalene-1-carboxamide, BIQ) were studied in KBr pellets. The X-ray diffractometry revealed that the Me, Ph, and pClPh BIQs crystalize in the monoclinic P21, while nBu, pMePh, and oMeOPh BIQs in the orthorhombic P212121 space group. Only the Me-BIQ crystal exhibits the presence of cyclic amide dimers, while the others contain chains of the amid group hydrogen bonds. For all BIQs, except pMePh, the most intense IR band in the 1750-1550 cm-1 region is located at ca. 1680 cm-1 and is accompanied by two weak ones at ca. 1618 and 1590 cm-1. For the pMePh derivative, four almost equally intense IR bands at 1662, 1639, 1614, and 1588 cm-1 are observed. This region of the IR spectra of BIQs, but pMePh, is well reproduced by calculations based on BIQ monomers. On the other hand, the complex IR pattern of pMePh is computationally reproduced when larger crystal fragments, like octamers, are considered. Registration of the VCD spectra enabled recognizing the complexity of IR contours at ca. 1680 cm-1 by the corresponding VCD motives. For (i) Me, Ph and pClPh (R)-enantiomers, two (+)(-) bands were distinguished and for (ii) nBu and pMePh ones, one VCD band with right-side asymmetry was found. For (iii) oMeOPh the VCD pattern cannot be unambiguously assigned. Thus, the VCD spectra in the ν(C=O) range diverse the studied compounds. Among the set of molecules, pMePh has exceptional crystal geometry. Therefore, its most intense ν(C=O) band position and shape can be connected with the geometry of the hydrogen bonds, interactions, and crystal packing. Interpretation of the VCD spectra is based on linear and packed BIQ octamers. This cluster model can reproduce the main features of the solid-state VCD of BIQs.
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- Joanna E Rode
- Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, 16 Dorodna Street 03-195, Warsaw, Poland.
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- Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, 16 Dorodna Street 03-195, Warsaw, Poland
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- University of Siedlce, Faculty of Science, 3 Maja Street No 54 08-110, Siedlce, Poland
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- University of Siedlce, Faculty of Science, 3 Maja Street No 54 08-110, Siedlce, Poland
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- Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, 16 Dorodna Street 03-195, Warsaw, Poland
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Weng GG, Xu K, Hou T, Huang XD, Qin MF, Bao SS, Zheng LM. Enhancing the Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Europium Coordination Polymers by Doping a Chromophore Ligand into Superhelices. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:21044-21052. [PMID: 38051505 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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Lanthanide-based molecular materials showing efficient circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) activity with a high quantum yield are attractive due to their potential applications in data storage, optical sensors, and 3D displays. Herein we present an innovative method to achieve enhanced CPL activity and a high quantum yield by doping a chromophore ligand into a coordination polymer superhelix. A series of homochiral europium(III) phosphonates with a helical morphology were prepared with the molecular formula S-, R-[Eu(cyampH)3-3n(nempH)3n]·3H2O (S/R-Eu-n, n = 0-5%). The doping of chromophore ligand S- or R-nempH2 into superhelices of S/R-Eu-0% not only turned on the CPL activity with the dissymmetry factor |glum| on the order of 10-3 but also increased the quantum yield by about 14-fold. This work may shed light on the development of efficient CPL-active lanthanide-based coordination polymers for applications.
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- Guo-Guo Weng
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Jiangxi University for Functional Materials Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 341000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, P. R. China
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Jähnigen S. Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Chiral Molecular Crystals: Insights from Theory. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202303595. [PMID: 37071543 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202303595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 04/19/2023]
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Chirality is a curious phenomenon that appears in various forms. While the concept of molecular (RS-)chirality is ubiquitous in chemistry, there are also more intricate forms of structural chirality. One of them is the enantiomorphism of crystals, especially molecular crystals, that describes the lack of mirror symmetry in the unit cell. Its relation to molecular chirality is not obvious, but still an open question, which can be addressed with chiroptical tools. Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) denotes chiral infrared (IR) spectroscopy that is susceptible to both, the molecular as well as the intermolecular space by means of vibrational transitions. When carried out in the solid state, VCD delivers a very rich set of non-local contributions that are determined by crystal packing and collective motion. Since its discovery in the 1970s, VCD has become the method of choice for the determination of absolute configurations, but its applicability reaches beyond towards the study of different crystal forms and polymorphism. This brief review summarises the theoretical concepts of crystal chirality and how computations of solid-state VCD can shed light into the intimate connection of chiral structure and vibrational optical activity.
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- Sascha Jähnigen
- PASTEUR, Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 75005, Paris, France
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Bowles J, Jähnigen S, Vuilleumier R, Calvo F, Clavaguéra C, Agostini F. Influence of the environment on the infrared spectrum of alanine: An effective mode analysis. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:094305. [PMID: 36889973 DOI: 10.1063/5.0135608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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The vibrational spectrum of the alanine amino acid was computationally determined in the infrared range 1000-2000 cm-1, under various environments encompassing the gas, hydrated, and crystalline phases, by means of classical molecular dynamics trajectories, carried out with the Atomic Multipole Optimized Energetics for Biomolecular Simulation polarizable force field. An effective mode analysis was performed, in which the spectra are optimally decomposed into different absorption bands arising from well-defined internal modes. In the gas phase, this analysis allows us to unravel the significant differences between the spectra obtained for the neutral and zwitterionic forms of alanine. In condensed phases, the method provides invaluable insight into the molecular origins of the vibrational bands and further shows that peaks with similar positions can be traced to rather different molecular motions.
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- Jessica Bowles
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique UMR8000, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- PASTEUR Laboratory, Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique UMR8000, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique UMR8000, 91405 Orsay, France
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