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Di Muzio S, Trequattrini F, Palumbo O, Roy P, Brubach JB, Paolone A. An Eutectic Mixture in the Tetrabutylammonium Bromide-Octanol System: Macroscopic and Microscopic Points of View. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202400219. [PMID: 38726706 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400219] [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: 02/28/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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An eutectic mixture of tetrabutylammonium bromide and octanol in the molar ratio 1-10 exhibited a melting point of -17 °C. This system was investigated by means of infrared spectroscopy, in the liquid and in the solid state. Classical molecular dynamics was performed to study the fine details of the hydrogen bond interactions established in the mixture. Both octanol and the mixtures displayed an almost featureless far-infrared spectrum in the liquid state but it becomes highly structured in the solid phase. DFT calculations suggest that new vibrational modes appearing in the mixture at low temperatures may be related to the population of the higher energy conformers of the alcohol. Mid-infrared spectroscopy measurements evidenced no shift of the CH stretching bands in the mixture compared to the starting materials, while the OH stretching are blue shifted by a few cm-1. Consistently, molecular dynamics provides a picture of the mixture in which part of the hydrogen bonds (HB) of pure octanol is replaced by weaker HB formed with the Br anion. Due to these interactions the ionic couple becomes more separated. In agreement with this model, the lengths of all HB are much larger than those observed in mixtures containing acids reported in previous studies.
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- Simone Di Muzio
- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Synchrotron Soleil, L'Orme des Merisier, 91190, Saint-Aubin, France
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- Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
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Di Muzio S, Palumbo O, Trequattrini F, Paolone A. Binary Mixtures of Choline Acetate and Tetrabutylammonium Acetate with Natural Organic Acids by Vibrational Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:857-870. [PMID: 38224560 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c06407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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We present a study of several mixtures obtained by the mixing of two organic acetate-based salts (choline acetate, ChAc, or tetrabutylammonium acetate, TBAAc) with three different natural organic acids (ascorbic acid, AA, citric acid, CA, and maleic acid, MA). The structures of the starting materials and of the mixtures were characterized by infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and classic molecular dynamics simulations (MD). The thermal behavior was characterized by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetry analysis (TGA). The obtained mixtures, especially the ChAc-based ones, strongly tend to vitrify at low temperatures and are stable up to 100-150 °C. The FTIR measurements suggest the formation of a strong H-bond network: the coordination between acids and ChAc or TBAAc takes place by the donation of the H-bond by the acids to the oxygen of the acetate anion, which acts as an acceptor (HBA). The comparison with MD analysis indicates that acids predominantly exploit their more acidic hydrogens. In particular, we observe the progressive shift of νC═O and νOH when the ratios of acids increase. The structural differences between the two studied cations influence the spatial distribution of the components in the mixture bulk phases. In particular, the analysis of the theoretical structure function I(q) of the TBAAc-based systems shows the presence of important prepeaks at low q, a sign of the formation of apolar domain, due to the nanosegregation of the alkyl chains.
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- Simone Di Muzio
- Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, P. le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Department of Physical and Chemical Science, University of L'Aquila, Via Vetoio 1, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, P. le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Luo Q, Duan H, McLaughlin MC, Wei K, Tapia J, Adewuyi JA, Shuster S, Liaqat M, Suib SL, Ung G, Bai P, Sun S, He J. Why surface hydrophobicity promotes CO 2 electroreduction: a case study of hydrophobic polymer N-heterocyclic carbenes. Chem Sci 2023; 14:9664-9677. [PMID: 37736633 PMCID: PMC10510627 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc02658b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023] Open
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We report the use of polymer N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) to control the microenvironment surrounding metal nanocatalysts, thereby enhancing their catalytic performance in CO2 electroreduction. Three polymer NHC ligands were designed with different hydrophobicity: hydrophilic poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO-NHC), hydrophobic polystyrene (PS-NHC), and amphiphilic block copolymer (BCP) (PEO-b-PS-NHC). All three polymer NHCs exhibited enhanced reactivity of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) during CO2 electroreduction by suppressing proton reduction. Notably, the incorporation of hydrophobic PS segments in both PS-NHC and PEO-b-PS-NHC led to a twofold increase in the partial current density for CO formation, as compared to the hydrophilic PEO-NHC. While polymer ligands did not hinder ion diffusion, their hydrophobicity altered the localized hydrogen bonding structures of water. This was confirmed experimentally and theoretically through attenuated total reflectance surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation, demonstrating improved CO2 diffusion and subsequent reduction in the presence of hydrophobic polymers. Furthermore, NHCs exhibited reasonable stability under reductive conditions, preserving the structural integrity of AuNPs, unlike thiol-ended polymers. The combination of NHC binding motifs with hydrophobic polymers provides valuable insights into controlling the microenvironment of metal nanocatalysts, offering a bioinspired strategy for the design of artificial metalloenzymes.
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- Qiang Luo
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University Providence Rhode Island 02912 USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts 01003 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts 01003 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University Providence Rhode Island 02912 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA
- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA
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Mangiarotti A, Bagatolli LA. Impact of macromolecular crowding on the mesomorphic behavior of lipid self-assemblies. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2021; 1863:183728. [PMID: 34416246 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2021.183728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Using LAURDAN fluorescence we observed that water dynamics measured at the interface of DOPC bilayers can be differentially regulated by the presence of crowded suspensions of different proteins (HSA, IgG, Gelatin) and PEG, under conditions where the polymers are not in direct molecular contact with the lipid interface. Specifically, we found that the decrease in water dipolar relaxation at the membrane interface correlates with an increased fraction of randomly oriented (or random coil) configurations in the polymers, as Gelatin > PEG > IgG > HSA. By using the same experimental strategy, we also demonstrated that structural transitions from globular to extended conformations in proteins can induce transitions between lamellar and non-lamellar phases in mixtures of DOPC and monoolein. Independent experiments using Raman spectroscopy showed that aqueous suspensions of polymers exhibiting high proportions of randomly oriented conformations display increased fractions of tetracoordinated water, a configuration that is dominant in ice. This indicates a greater capacity of this type of structure for polarizing water and consequently reducing its chemical activity. This effect is in line with one of the tenets of the Association Induction Hypothesis, which predicts a long-range dynamic structuring of water molecules via their interactions with proteins (or other polymers) showing extended conformations. Overall, our results suggest a crucial role of water in promoting couplings between structural changes in macromolecules and supramolecular arrangements of lipids. This mechanism may be of relevance to cell structure/function when the crowded nature of the intracellular milieu is considered.
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- Agustín Mangiarotti
- Instituto de Investigación Médica Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra - INIMEC (CONICET) - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Friuli 2434, 5016 Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigación Médica Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra - INIMEC (CONICET) - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Friuli 2434, 5016 Córdoba, Argentina; Departamento de Química Biológica Ranwel Caputto, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
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Palumbo O, Cimini A, Trequattrini F, Brubach JB, Roy P, Paolone A. Evidence of the CH···O HydrogenBonding in Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids from Far-Infrared Spectroscopy Measurements and DFT Calculations. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22116155. [PMID: 34200392 PMCID: PMC8201385 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22116155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Knowledge of all the intermolecular forces occurring in ionic liquids (ILs) is essential to master their properties. Aiming at investigating the weaker hydrogen bonding in aprotic liquids, the present work combined computational study and far-infrared spectroscopy on four imidazolium-based ILs with different anions. The DFT calculations of the ionic couples, using the ωB97X-D functional and considering both the empirical dispersion corrections and the presence of a polar solvent, show that, for all samples, the lowest energy configurations of the ion pair present H atoms, directly bound to C atoms of the cation and close to O atoms of the anion, capable of creating moderate to weak hydrogen bonding with anions. For the liquids containing anions of higher bonding ability, the absorption curves generated from the calculated vibrational frequencies and intensities show absorption bands between 100 and 125 cm−1 corresponding to the stretching of the hydrogen bond. These indications are in complete agreement with the presently reported temperature dependence of the far-infrared spectrum, where the stretching modes of the hydrogen bonding are detected only for samples presenting a moderate interaction and become particularly prominent at low temperatures. Moreover, from the analysis of the infrared spectra, the occurrence of various phase transitions as a function of temperature was detected, and the difference in the average energy between the H-bonded and the dispersion-governed molecular configurations was evaluated.
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- Oriele Palumbo
- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy; (O.P.); (A.C.); (A.P.)
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- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy; (O.P.); (A.C.); (A.P.)
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- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy; (O.P.); (A.C.); (A.P.)
- Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Correspondence:
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, AILES Beamline, L’Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, BP 48, CEDEX, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; (J.-B.B.); (P.R.)
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, AILES Beamline, L’Orme des Merisiers Saint-Aubin, BP 48, CEDEX, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; (J.-B.B.); (P.R.)
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- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy; (O.P.); (A.C.); (A.P.)
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Palumbo O, Trequattrini F, Cimini A, Tsurumaki A, Navarra MA, Paolone A. Inter- and Intramolecular Interactions in Ether-Functionalized Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:2380-2388. [PMID: 33625218 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c11429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The intra- and intermolecular interactions in ether-functionalized ionic liquids (ILs) are studied by means of infrared (IR) spectroscopy measurements of N-ethoxyethyl-N-methylpiperidiniumbis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (P1,2O2-FSI) and N-ethoxyethyl-N-methylmorpholiniumbis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (M1,2O2-FSI). The temperature dependence of the spectra in the medium IR range allows the study of the anion conformer distribution and its variation during phase transitions. In particular, it is found that for both ILs the trans conformer of FSI is more stable than the cis conformer, and the enthalpy differences between them are calculated and are found to decrease upon the addition of a Li salt. The results obtained in the far IR range, combined with ab initio calculation of the ionic couple performed using the B3LYP-D functional and considering both empirical dispersion corrections and the presence of a polar solvent, provide evidence for the occurrence of a hydrogen bonding between the O atom of the anion and its closest H atoms directly linked to a C atom of the cation. The comparison with samples having the same cations but with bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (TFSI) as an anion, that is, M1,2O2-TFSI and P1,2O2-TFSI, as well as with samples having cations without the ether-functionalization neither in the ring nor in the side chain, such as N-propyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium-FSI (PYR13-FSI) and 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium-TFSI (PYR14-TFSI), indicates that the occurrence of such highly directional interaction between anion and cation is better observable in the ether-functionalized samples, in particular in those containing FSI as an anion.
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- O Palumbo
- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.,Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Molecular Assembling in Mixtures of Hydrophilic 1-Butyl-1-Methylpyrrolidinium Dicyanamide Ionic Liquid and Water. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/app10144837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The infrared absorbance spectrum of the ionic liquid 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium dicyanamide, mixed with water at two different concentrations, was measured between 160 and 300 K in the mid infrared range. Both mixtures do not crystallize on cooling; however, remarkably, the one with an ionic liquid (IL):water composition of 1:3 displays a cold crystallization process on heating in a restricted temperature range between 240 and 250 K. A portion of the water participates to the cold crystallization. On the contrary, with an IL:water composition of 1:6.6 no crystallization takes place. Upon water addition the vibration frequencies of the anion and of some lines of the cation are blue shifted, while the absorption lines of water are red shifted. These facts are interpreted as the evidence of the occurrence of the hydrogen bonding of water, as the hydrogen bonding acceptor with respect to the anion (anion∙∙∙O-H bonds develop) and as hydrogen donor for the cation (C-H∙∙∙O bonds can form). Microscopic inhomogeneities in the samples and their evolution with temperature are discussed.
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Palumbo O, Cimini A, Trequattrini F, Brubach JB, Roy P, Paolone A. The infrared spectra of protic ionic liquids: performances of different computational models to predict hydrogen bonds and conformer evolution. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:7497-7506. [PMID: 32219245 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp00907e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The temperature dependence of the far- and mid-infrared spectrum of two prototypical protic ionic liquids (PILs) sharing a common trialkylammonium cation, but having different anions, is investigated. The exploitation of both the FIR and MIR ranges provides complementary information about the microscopic configurations and the intermolecular interactions, which determine the structure and the properties of ILs. The analysis of the data collected for all the measured frequencies in a wide temperature range reveals several phase transitions and allows the evaluation of the conformer distribution in the different physical states. The difference in the average energy between the H-bonded configurations and the dispersion-governed ones was also determined for the two PILs. Moreover, a computational model for ionic couples based on the ωB97X-D functional and a polar solvent is here successfully exploited for the description of the hydrogen bonding between anion and cation. For the attribution of vibrational lines of the conformers of the cation, the picture based on single ion calculations at the B3LYP level is more valuable and provides better agreement with the experiments.
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- O Palumbo
- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.
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- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.
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- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy. and Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, 91192 Gif Sur Yvette, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, 91192 Gif Sur Yvette, France
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- CNR-ISC, U.O.S. La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.
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Giuffrida S, Cordone L, Cottone G. Bioprotection Can Be Tuned with a Proper Protein/Saccharide Ratio: The Case of Solid Amorphous Matrices. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:8642-8653. [PMID: 30149699 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b05098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Saccharides, and in particular trehalose, are well known for their high efficiency in protecting biostructures against adverse environmental conditions. The protein dynamics is known to be highly inhibited in a low-water trehalose host medium, the inhibition being markedly dependent on the amount of residual water. Besides hydration, the protein/sugar ratio is expected to affect the properties of saccharide amorphous matrices. In this work, we report an infrared spectroscopy study in dry amorphous matrices of various sugars (the disaccharides trehalose, maltose, sucrose, and lactose, and the trisaccharide raffinose) containing myoglobin, at different protein/sugar ratios. We analyze the stretching band of the bound CO molecule and the water association band. Such bands have already been successfully exploited for the simultaneous study of thermal evolution of a matrix and embedded protein. The results show a high dependence of protein and matrix signals on the protein/sugar ratio, the system behavior evolving from situations where (i) the protein slaves the matrix to (ii) protein ↔ matrix coupling/uncoupling, then to (iii) the matrix slaving the protein, with increasing sugar concentration. This supports a mutual protein ↔ matrix structural and dynamic influence in low hydrated systems, indicating that the protein/solvent master and slave paradigm does not strictly hold, but the mutual relationship depends on the relative concentrations. Furthermore, for each sugar, an optimal protein/sugar concentration ratio can be identified, which maximizes the protein preservation; under such a condition, the water content is minimal.
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- Sergio Giuffrida
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica , Università di Palermo , Viale delle Scienze 17-18 , I-90128 Palermo , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica , Università di Palermo , Viale delle Scienze 17-18 , I-90128 Palermo , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica , Università di Palermo , Viale delle Scienze 17-18 , I-90128 Palermo , Italy
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Semeraro EF, Giuffrida S, Cottone G, Cupane A. Biopreservation of Myoglobin in Crowded Environment: A Comparison between Gelatin and Trehalose Matrixes. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:8731-8741. [PMID: 28829129 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b07266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Biopreservation by sugar and/or polymeric matrixes is a thoroughly studied research topic with wide technological relevance. Ternary amorphous systems containing both saccharides and proteins are extensively exploited to model the in vivo biopreservation process. With the aim of disentangling the effect of saccharides and polypeptidic crowders (such as gelatin) on the preservation of a model protein, we present here a combined differential scanning calorimetry and UV-vis spectrophotometry study on samples of myoglobin embedded in amorphous gelatin and trehalose + gelatin matrixes at different hydrations, and compare them with amorphous myoglobin-only and myoglobin-trehalose samples. The results point out the different effects of gelatin, which acts mainly as a crowding agent, and trehalose, which acts mainly by direct interaction. Gelatin is able to improve effectively the protein thermal stability at very low hydration; however, it has small effects at medium to high hydration. Consistently, gelatin appears to be more effective than trehalose against massive denaturation in the long time range, while the mixed trehalose + collagen matrix is most effective in preserving protein functionality, outdoing both gelatin-only and trehalose-only matrixes.
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- Enrico F Semeraro
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo , Viale delle Scienze 17-18, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo , Viale delle Scienze 17-18, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo , Viale delle Scienze 17-18, I-90128 Palermo, Italy.,School of Physics, University College of Dublin , Dublin, Ireland
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo , Viale delle Scienze 17-18, I-90128 Palermo, Italy
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El Khoury Y, Hellwig P. Far infrared spectroscopy of hydrogen bonding collective motions in complex molecular systems. Chem Commun (Camb) 2017; 53:8389-8399. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cc03496b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Far infrared spectroscopy as a tool for the study of inter and intramolecular interactions in complex molecular structures.
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- Youssef El Khoury
- Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie
- UMR 7140
- CMC
- Université de Strasbourg CNRS
- Strasbourg
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- Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie
- UMR 7140
- CMC
- Université de Strasbourg CNRS
- Strasbourg
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Bergonzi I, Mercury L, Simon P, Jamme F, Shmulovich K. Oversolubility in the microvicinity of solid-solution interfaces. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:14874-85. [PMID: 27191014 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp08012f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Water-solid interactions at the macroscopic level (beyond tens of nanometers) are often viewed as the coexistence of two bulk phases with a sharp interface in many areas spanning from biology to (geo)chemistry and various technological fields (membranes, microfluidics, coatings, etc.). Here we present experimental evidence indicating that such a view may be a significant oversimplification. High-resolution infrared and Raman experiments were performed in a 60 × 20 μm(2) quartz cavity, synthetically created and initially filled with demineralized water. The IR mapping (3 × 3 μm(2) beam size) performed using the SOLEIL synchrotron radiation source displays two important features: (i) the presence of a dangling free-OH component, a signature of hydrophobic inner walls; (ii) a shift of the OH-stretching band which essentially makes the 3200 cm(-1) sub-band predominate over the usual main component at around 3400 cm(-1). Raman maps confirmed these signatures (though less marked than IR's) and afforded a refined spatial distribution of this interfacial signal. This spatial resolution, statistically treated, results in a puzzling image of a 1-3 μm thick marked-liquid layer along the entire liquid-solid interface. The common view is then challenged by this strong evidence that a μm-thick layer analogous to an interphase forms at the solid-liquid interface. The thermodynamic counterpart of the vibrational shifts amounts to around +1 kJ mol(-1) at the interface with a rapidly decreasing signature towards the cavity centre, meaning that vicinal water may form a reactive layer, of micrometer thickness, expected to have an elevated melting point, a depressed boiling temperature, and enhanced solvent properties.
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- Isabelle Bergonzi
- Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans, UMR 7327 Université d'Orléans/CNRS/BRGM, 45071 Orléans Cedex, France.
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- Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans, UMR 7327 Université d'Orléans/CNRS/BRGM, 45071 Orléans Cedex, France.
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- CNRS, CEMHTI UPR3079, Université d'Orléans, CS 90055, 45071 Orleans Cedex 2, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin, BP 489, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Science, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia
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