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Yang Y, Sun X, Reza Poopari M, Jian C, Zeng H, Tang T, Xu Y. Chirality Discrimination at Binary Organic|Water Interfaces Monitored by Interfacial Tension Measurements with Preliminary Comparison with Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202200608. [PMID: 36173980 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Revised: 09/17/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Chirality discrimination at a binary toluene (organic)/water(aqueous) interface between R- or S-Tol-BINAP (2,2'-Bis(di-p-tolylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl) molecules and the water-soluble serine chiral specie is examined for the first time, using a combination of interfacial tension measurements and molecular dynamic simulations. Experimental interfacial measurements exhibit a clear chirality-controlled difference when a homochiral versus a heterochiral enantiomeric pairs are introduced at the interfaces. The related molecular dynamics simulations support the experimental results and provide further molecular insight of intermolecular interactions at the interfaces. The results indicate that interfacial tension measurements can capture the preferential interactions which exist between different pairs of enantiomers at the binary interfaces, opening up a new way for probing chirality discrimination at liquid-liquid interfaces.
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- Yanqing Yang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3 J 1P3, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2, Canada
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Yang Q, Carlson CD, Jäger W, Xu Y. Conformational Landscape of the Hydrogen-Bonded 1-Phenyl-2,2,2-Trilfuoroethanol···1,4-Dioxane Complex: Dispersion Interactions and Conformational Conversion. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:2942-2949. [PMID: 35507825 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A rotational spectrum of the hydrogen-bonded complex between 1-phenyl-2,2,2-trilfuoroethanol (PhTFE), a chiral fluoroalcohol, and 1,4-dioxane, a common solvent for organic reactions, was measured using a chirped pulse Fourier transform microwave spectrometer. Initial theoretical conformational searches were carried out using CREST, a recently developed conformational searching tool. Subsequent geometry optimization and harmonic frequency calculations at the B3LYP-D3(BJ)/def2-TZVP level of theory yielded nearly 30 binary conformers of which 13 are within an energy window of ∼5 kJ mol-1. Interestingly, while the O-H···O hydrogen bond dominates the attractive binary interactions, the complex conformational landscape is mainly controlled by subtle dispersion interactions between the phenyl and 1,4-dioxane rings. Two sets of rotational transitions were assigned in the experimental spectrum and attributed to the two most stable conformers of PhTFE···1,4-dioxane. The quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM), noncovalent interactions (NCI), and symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) analyses were employed in order to appreciate how the phenyl ring and O-H functional groups influence the intermolecular interaction and conformational distribution of the binary complex. The main PhTFE conformation within the complex, identified experimentally, is different from that of the isolated PhTFE monomer reported previously.
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- Qian Yang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada
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Xie F, Seifert NA, Hazrah AS, Jäger W, Xu Y. Conformational Landscape, Chirality Recognition and Chiral Analyses: Rotational Spectroscopy of Tetrahydro-2-Furoic Acid⋅⋅⋅Propylene Oxide Conformers. Chemphyschem 2021; 22:455-460. [PMID: 33453085 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Revised: 12/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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A chiral adduct formed between a chiral carboxylic acid, tetrahydro-2-furoic acid (THFA), and a chiral ester, propylene oxide (PO), was investigated using rotational spectroscopy and DFT calculations. Isolated THFA exists dominantly as three different conformers: I, II, and III in a jet, with I and II taking on the trans-COOH configuration and III having the cis-COOH configuration. We utilized CREST, a conformational ensemble space exploration tool, to identify the possible conformations of the binary adduct, THFA⋅⋅⋅PO. Subsequent DFT geometry optimizations predicted about two hundred homochiral and heterochiral binary structures with 28 low energy structures within an energy window of 15 kJ mol-1 . A rich broadband rotational spectrum was obtained with a mixture of trace amounts of THFA+PO in neon in a supersonic jet expansion. Six THFA⋅⋅⋅PO conformers were identified experimentally. Kinetically favored binary products which contain trans-COOH I dominate among the observed conformers, while thermodynamically more stable adducts were also detected. Detailed analyses of the structures of the observed conformers show interesting chirality-controlled structural preferences. Such non-covalently bound chiral contact pairs are the foundation of chiral-tag rotational spectroscopy, an exciting new analytical application of rotational spectroscopy for determination of enantiomeric excess. Enantiomeric excess analyses were performed and the results are discussed.
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- Fan Xie
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Current address: Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2, Canada
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Xie F, Fusè M, Hazrah AS, Jäger W, Barone V, Xu Y. Discovering the Elusive Global Minimum in a Ternary Chiral Cluster: Rotational Spectra of Propylene Oxide Trimer. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:22427-22430. [PMID: 32896062 PMCID: PMC7984290 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202010055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The chirality controlled conformational landscape of the trimer of propylene oxide (PO), a prototypical chiral molecule, was investigated using rotational spectroscopy and a range of theoretical tools for conformational searches and for evaluating vibrational contributions to effective structures. Two sets of homochiral (PO)3 rotational transitions were assigned and the associated conformers identified with theoretical support. One set of heterochiral (PO)3 transitions was assigned, but no structures generated by one of the latest, advanced conformational search codes could account for them. With the aid of a Python program, the carbon atom backbone and then the heterochiral (PO)3 structure were generated using 13 C isotopic data. Excellent agreement between theoretical and experimental rotational constants and relative dipole moment components of all three conformers was achieved, especially after applying vibrational corrections to the rotational constants.
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- Fan Xie
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonAlbertaT6G 2G2Canada
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- Scuola Normale SuperiorePiazza dei Cavalieri 756126PisaItaly
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonAlbertaT6G 2G2Canada
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonAlbertaT6G 2G2Canada
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- Scuola Normale SuperiorePiazza dei Cavalieri 756126PisaItaly
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonAlbertaT6G 2G2Canada
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Hemmati R, Patkowski K. Ab Initio Study of Chiral Discrimination in the Glycidol Dimer. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:9436-9450. [PMID: 33146519 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c07764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Chiral discrimination, the ability of a chiral molecule to exhibit different weak intermolecular interactions than its mirror image, is investigated for dimers of oxiranemethanol (glycidol). In this regard, high-level ab initio calculations were performed to study the chiral recognition effects in the homochiral and heterochiral dimers of glycidol. Fourteen dimer structures, seven homochiral and seven heterochiral, were studied: they all feature two intermolecular O-H···O hydrogen bonds. These structures have been determined with the second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) using the aug-cc-pVTZ basis set and verified to pertain to actual local minima. The benchmark interaction energy values were computed using MP2 extrapolated from the aug-cc-pVQZ and aug-cc-pV5Z bases with a higher-level correction from a coupled-cluster calculation in the aug-cc-pVTZ basis. The global minimum structure is a homochiral one, with the two hydrogen bonds forming a part of a ring with eight heavy atoms. A similar heterochiral structure has a binding energy smaller by about 0.6 kcal/mol. The largest diastereomeric energy difference is about 1.0 kcal/mol. Further insight into the origins of chiral discrimination was provided by symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) and a functional-group SAPT (F-SAPT) difference analysis to investigate the direct and indirect effects of two -H/-CH2OH substitutions leading from an achiral ethylene oxide dimer to the chiral glycidol dimer. Last but not least, harmonic frequency shifts relative to a noninteracting glycidol molecule were calculated and analyzed for all conformations to get insight into the origins of chiral discrimination. It is found that the largest frequency shifts are related to the effect of hydrogen bonding on the O-H stretch mode, the stability of the ring involving both hydrogen bonds, and the transition between two nonequivalent minima of the glycidol molecule.
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- Reza Hemmati
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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Xie F, Fusè M, Hazrah AS, Jäger W, Barone V, Xu Y. Discovering the Elusive Global Minimum in a Ternary Chiral Cluster: Rotational Spectra of Propylene Oxide Trimer. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202010055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Fan Xie
- Department of Chemistry University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta T6G 2G2 Canada
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- Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 Pisa Italy
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- Department of Chemistry University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta T6G 2G2 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta T6G 2G2 Canada
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- Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 Pisa Italy
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- Department of Chemistry University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta T6G 2G2 Canada
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Hemmati R, Patkowski K. Chiral Self Recognition: Interactions in Propylene Oxide Complexes. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:8607-8618. [PMID: 31525971 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Reza Hemmati
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849, United States
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Juanes M, Saragi RT, Caminati W, Lesarri A. The Hydrogen Bond and Beyond: Perspectives for Rotational Investigations of Non‐Covalent Interactions. Chemistry 2019; 25:11402-11411. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201901113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2019] [Revised: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Marcos Juanes
- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica—IU CINQUIMAFacultad de CienciasUniversidad de Valladolid 47011 Valladolid Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica—IU CINQUIMAFacultad de CienciasUniversidad de Valladolid 47011 Valladolid Spain
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- Dipartimento di Chimica “G. Ciamician”Università di Bologna Via Selmi 2 40126 Bologna Italy
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- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica—IU CINQUIMAFacultad de CienciasUniversidad de Valladolid 47011 Valladolid Spain
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Li X, Zheng Y, Chen J, Grabow JU, Gou Q, Xia Z, Feng G. Weak Hydrogen Bond Network: A Rotational Study of 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane Dimer. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:7876-7881. [PMID: 28926244 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b07007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane dimer was investigated by pulsed jet Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. One conformer, stabilized through a network of four C-H···F-C interactions, was observed, although several almost isoenergetic configurations were suggested by ab initio calculations. The measurements, extended to four 13C species in natural abundance, allowed determination of the carbon skeleton structures and evaluation of the weak hydrogen bond parameters. Information on the dissociation energy is also provided.
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- Xiaolong Li
- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Daxuecheng South Road 55, 401331 Chongqing, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Daxuecheng South Road 55, 401331 Chongqing, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Daxuecheng South Road 55, 401331 Chongqing, China
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie, Universtät Hannover , Callinstrasse 3A, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Daxuecheng South Road 55, 401331 Chongqing, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Daxuecheng South Road 55, 401331 Chongqing, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University , Daxuecheng South Road 55, 401331 Chongqing, China
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Gou Q, Favero LB, Feng G, Evangelisti L, Pérez C, Caminati W. Interactions between Ketones and Alcohols: Rotational Spectrum and Internal Dynamics of the Acetone-Ethanol Complex. Chemistry 2017; 23:11119-11125. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201702090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Qian Gou
- Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Chongqing University; Daxuecheng South Rd. 55 401331 Chongqing P. R. China
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- Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati (ISMN); Sezione di Bologna CNR; Via Gobetti 101 40129 Bologna Italy
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- Department of Chemistry; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Chongqing University; Daxuecheng South Rd. 55 401331 Chongqing P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Bologna; Via Selmi 2 40126 Bologna Italy
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- Max Plank Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter; The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging at the Universität Hamburg; 22761 Hamburg Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Bologna; Via Selmi 2 40126 Bologna Italy
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Thomas J, Carrillo MJ, Serrato A, Schnitzler EG, Jäger W, Xu Y, Lin W. Conformational analysis of 3,3,3-trifluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)propanoic acid. Chem Phys Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.08.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Lepere V, Le Barbu-Debus K, Clavaguéra C, Scuderi D, Piani G, Simon AL, Chirot F, MacAleese L, Dugourd P, Zehnacker A. Chirality-dependent structuration of protonated or sodiated polyphenylalanines: IRMPD and ion mobility studies. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 18:1807-17. [PMID: 26679547 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp06768e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ion mobility experiments are combined with Infra-Red Multiple Photon Dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations for assessing the role of chirality in the structure of protonated and sodiated di- or tetra-peptides. Sodiated systems show a strong chirality dependence of the competition between Na(+)O and Na(+)π interactions. Chirality effects are more subtle in protonated systems and manifest themselves by differences in the secondary interactions such hydrogen bonds between neutral groups or those involving the aromatic rings.
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- Valeria Lepere
- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France.
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Écija P, Uriarte I, Basterretxea FJ, Millán J, Lesarri A, Fernández JA, Cocinero EJ. Structural distortion of the epoxy groups in norbornanes: a rotational study of exo-2,3-epoxynorbornane. Chemphyschem 2015; 16:2609-14. [PMID: 26182910 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Exo-2,3-epoxynorbornane is studied in the gas phase by pulsed jet Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy in the 4-18 GHz region. Six isotopologues were observed and characterized in their natural abundance. The experimental substitution and effective structures were obtained. Comparison with the structure of norbornane shows significant differences in several bond lengths and valence angles upon introduction of the epoxy group. All the work is supported by quantum chemical calculations.
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- Patricia Écija
- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU), Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao (Spain)http://grupodeespectroscopia.es/MW/
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU), Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao (Spain)http://grupodeespectroscopia.es/MW/
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU), Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao (Spain)http://grupodeespectroscopia.es/MW/
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Estudios Agroalimentarios e Informática, Universidad de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño (Spain)
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- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid (Spain)
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU), Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao (Spain)http://grupodeespectroscopia.es/MW/
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU), Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao (Spain)http://grupodeespectroscopia.es/MW/.
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Chaudret R, de Courcy B, Contreras-García J, Gloaguen E, Zehnacker-Rentien A, Mons M, Piquemal JP. Unraveling non-covalent interactions within flexible biomolecules: from electron density topology to gas phase spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 16:9876-91. [PMID: 24419903 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp52774c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The NCI (Non-Covalent Interactions) method, a recently-developed theoretical strategy to visualize weak non-covalent interactions from the topological analysis of the electron density and of its reduced gradient, is applied in the present paper to document intra- and inter-molecular interactions in flexible molecules and systems of biological interest in combination with IR spectroscopy. We first describe the conditions of application of the NCI method to the specific case of intramolecular interactions. Then we apply it to a series of stable conformations of isolated molecules as an interpretative technique to decipher the different physical interactions at play in these systems. Examples are chosen among neutral molecular systems exhibiting a large diversity of interactions, for which an extensive spectroscopic characterization under gas-phase isolation conditions has been obtained using state-of-the-art conformer-specific experimental techniques. The interactions presently documented range from weak intra-molecular H-bonds in simple amino-alcohols, to more complex patterns, with interactions of various strengths in model peptides, as well as in chiral bimolecular systems, where invaluable hints for the understanding of chiral recognition are revealed. We also provide a detailed technical appendix, which discusses the choices of cut-offs as well as the applicability of the NCI analysis to specific constrained systems, where local effects require attention. Finally, the NCI technique provides IR spectroscopists with an elegant visualization of the interactions that potentially impact their vibrational probes, namely the OH and NH stretching motions. This contribution illustrates the power and the conditions of use of the NCI technique, with the aim of providing an easy tool for all chemists, experimentalists and theoreticians, for the visualization and characterization of the interactions shaping complex molecular systems.
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- R Chaudret
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique and CNRS, UMR 7616, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, Paris, France.
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Thomas J, Jäger W, Xu Y. Chirality Induction and Amplification in the 2,2,2‐Trifluoroethanol⋅⋅⋅Propylene Oxide Adduct. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014; 53:7277-80. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201403838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2014] [Revised: 05/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Javix Thomas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2 (Canada)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2 (Canada)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2 (Canada)
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Thomas J, Xu Y. Structure and tunneling dynamics in a model system of peptide co-solvents: Rotational spectroscopy of the 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol⋯water complex. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:234307. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4883518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Thomas J, Xu Y. Chirality Synchronization in Trifluoroethanol Dimer Revisited: The Missing Heterochiral Dimer. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:1850-1855. [PMID: 26273864 DOI: 10.1021/jz500718f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Chirality self-recognition in the dimer of transient chiral 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) is studied using chirped pulse and cavity-based Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy with the aid of ab initio calculations. The broad-band and extreme high-resolution capabilities enable us to assign rotational spectra of the most stable homo- and heterochiral dimers and analyze their structural and dynamical properties in detail. A strong preference for the homochiral over the heterochiral diastereomers is observed. The current study unambiguously identifies the structure of the most stable homochiral dimer and supports the identification by the previous low-resolution infrared study. More importantly, it also indisputably detects the so far elusive, most stable heterochiral dimer.
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- Javix Thomas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2, Canada
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Thomas J, Jäger W, Xu Y. Chirality Induction and Amplification in the 2,2,2‐Trifluoroethanol⋅⋅⋅Propylene Oxide Adduct. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201403838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Javix Thomas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2 (Canada)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2 (Canada)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2 (Canada)
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Thomas J, Serrato A, Lin W, Jäger W, Xu Y. Perfluorobutyric Acid and Its Monohydrate: A Chirped Pulse and Cavity Based Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopic Study. Chemistry 2014; 20:6148-53. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201304321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Feng G, Gou Q, Evangelisti L, Vallejo-López M, Lesarri A, Cocinero EJ, Caminati W. Competition between weak hydrogen bonds: C–H⋯Cl is preferred to C–H⋯F in CH2ClF–H2CO, as revealed by rotational spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:12261-5. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00919c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
CH2O is linked to CH2ClF through a C–H⋯Cl weak hydrogen bond, and it rotates along its symmetry axis with a barrier V2 ∼ 125 cm−1.
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- Gang Feng
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Bologna
- Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Bologna
- Bologna, Italy
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- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica
- Universidad de Valladolid
- E-47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica
- Universidad de Valladolid
- E-47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física
- Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología
- Universidad del País Vasco
- (UPV-EHU)
- E-48940 Bilbao, Spain
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Sen A, Le Barbu-Debus K, Scuderi D, Zehnacker-Rentien A. Mass Spectrometry Study and Infrared Spectroscopy of the Complex Between Camphor and the Two Enantiomers of Protonated Alanine: The Role of Higher-Energy Conformers in the Enantioselectivity of the Dissociation Rate Constants. Chirality 2013; 25:436-43. [DOI: 10.1002/chir.22164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2012] [Revised: 01/02/2013] [Accepted: 01/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Ananya Sen
- CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, UMR8214, and Univ. Paris-Sud; Orsay France
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- CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, UMR8214, and Univ. Paris-Sud; Orsay France
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- Univ. Paris-Sud; Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, UMR8000, and CNRS; Orsay France
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- CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay, UMR8214, and Univ. Paris-Sud; Orsay France
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Mahjoub A, Le Barbu-Debus K, Zehnacker A. Structural Rearrangement in the Formation of Jet-Cooled Complexes of Chiral (S)-1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-3-isoquinolinemethanol with Methyl Lactate: Chirality Effect in Conformer Selection. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:2952-60. [DOI: 10.1021/jp400998e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ahmed Mahjoub
- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay
(ISMO), CNRS, UMR8214, Orsay F-91405, France,
and Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
F-91405, France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay
(ISMO), CNRS, UMR8214, Orsay F-91405, France,
and Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
F-91405, France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay
(ISMO), CNRS, UMR8214, Orsay F-91405, France,
and Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
F-91405, France
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Thomas J, Sukhorukov O, Jäger W, Xu Y. Chirped-Pulse and Cavity-Based Fourier Transform Microwave Spectra of the Methyl Lactate⋅⋅⋅Ammonia Adduct. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201300707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Thomas J, Sukhorukov O, Jäger W, Xu Y. Chirped-Pulse and Cavity-Based Fourier Transform Microwave Spectra of the Methyl Lactate⋅⋅⋅Ammonia Adduct. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013; 52:4402-5. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201300707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Kraka E, Freindorf M, Cremer D. Chiral discrimination by vibrational spectroscopy utilizing local modes. Chirality 2013; 25:185-96. [PMID: 23335376 DOI: 10.1002/chir.22130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2012] [Accepted: 10/12/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Chiral discrimination of homochiral and heterochiral H-bonded complexes is a challenge for both experimentalists and computational chemists. It is demonstrated that a two-pronged approach based on far-infrared vibrational spectroscopy and the calculation of local mode frequencies facilitates the chiral discrimination of H-bonded dimers. The local H-bond stretching frequencies identify the strongest H-bonds and by this the dominating chiral diastereomer. This is shown in the case of peroxide, trioxide, hydrazine, glycidol, and butan-2-ol dimers as well as propylene oxide···glycidol complexes investigated with the help of second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation, coupled cluster, and density functional theory calculations where, in the latter case, the ωB97X-D functional was used for an improved description of H-bonding. In some cases, additional intermolecular interactions overrule the important role of H-bonding, which is found by calculating chirodiastaltic energies.
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- Elfi Kraka
- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Ave., Dallas, TX 75275-03114, USA.
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Sunahori FX, Yang G, Kitova EN, Klassen JS, Xu Y. Chirality recognition of the protonated serine dimer and octamer by infrared multiphoton dissociation spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:1873-86. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp43296j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Feng G, Evangelisti L, Favero LB, Grabow JU, Xia Z, Caminati W. On the weak O-H···halogen hydrogen bond: a rotational study of CH3CHClF···H2O. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:14092-6. [PMID: 21597624 DOI: 10.1039/c1cp20751b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We measured the molecular beam Fourier transform microwave spectra of six isotopologues of the 1 : 1 adduct of CH(3)CHClF with water. Water prefers to form an O-H···F rather than an O-H···Cl hydrogen bond. This is just the contrary of what was observed in the chlorofluoromethane-water adduct, where an O-H···Cl link was formed (W. Caminati, S. Melandri, A. Maris and P. Ottaviani, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 2438). The water molecule is linked with an O-H···F bridge to the fluorine atom, with r(F···H(w)) = 2.14 Å, and with two C-H···O contacts to the alkyl hydrogens with r(C(1)-H(1)···O(w)) = 2.75 Å and r(C(2)-H(2)···O(w)) = 2.84 Å, respectively. Besides the rotational constants, the quadrupole coupling constants of the chlorine atom have been determined. In addition, information on the internal dynamics has been obtained.
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- Gang Feng
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bologna, via Selmi 2, I-40126 Bologna, Italy.
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