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de Araujo Oliveira AL, de Macedo LGM, de Oliveira Só YA, Martins JBL, Pirani F, Gargano R. Nature and role of the weak intermolecular bond in enantiomeric conformations of H 2O 2–noble gas adducts: a chiral prototypical model. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d0nj06135b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The role and nature of the weak intermolecular bond in the H2O2–noble gas enantiomeric conformations are presented. Charge transfer associated with the formation of a weak intermolecular hydrogen bond tends to stabilize the cis-barrier conformation.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica
- Biologia e Biotecnologie
- Universitá degli Studi di Perugia
- Perugia
- Italy
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Só YADO, Neto PHDO, de Macedo LGM, Gargano R. Theoretical Investigation on H 2O 2-Ng (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, and Rn) Complexes Suitable for Stereodynamics: Interactions and Thermal Chiral Rate Consequences. Front Chem 2019; 6:671. [PMID: 30713840 PMCID: PMC6345723 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 12/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Although molecular collisions of noble gases (Ng) can be theoretically used to distinguish between the enantiomers of hydrogen peroxide - H2O2 (HP), little is known about the effects of HP-Ng interactions on the chiral rate. In this work, the chiral rate as a function of temperature (CRT) between enantiomeric conformations of HP and Ng (Ng=He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, and Rn) are presented at MP2(full)/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory through a fully basis set superposition error (BSSE) corrected potential energy surface. The results show that: (a) the CRT is highly affected even at a small decrease in the height of trans-barrier; (b) its smallest values occur with Ne for all temperatures between 100 and 4,000 K; (c) that the decrease of CRT shows an inverse correlation with respect to the average valence electron energy of the Ng and (d) Ne and He may be the noble gases more suitable for study the oriented collision dynamics of HP. In addition to binding energies, the electron density ρ and its Laplacian ∇2ρ topological analyses were also performed within the atoms in molecules (AIM) theory in order to determine the nature of the HP-Ng interactions. The results of this work provide a more complete foundation on experiments to study HP's chirality using Ng in crossed molecular beams without a light source.
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- Institute of Physics, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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Ball R, Brindley J. The Life Story of Hydrogen Peroxide III: Chirality and Physical Effects at the Dawn of Life. ORIGINS LIFE EVOL B 2016; 46:81-93. [PMID: 26399407 DOI: 10.1007/s11084-015-9465-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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It is a remarkable observed fact that all life on Earth is homochiral, its biology using exclusively the D-enantiomer of ribose, the sugar moiety of the ribonucleic acids, and the L-enantiomers of the chiral amino acids. Motivated by concurrent work that elaborates further the role of hydrogen peroxide in providing an oscillatory drive for the RNA world (Ball & Brindley 2015a, J. R. Soc. Interface 12, 20150366, and Ball & Brindley 2015b, this journal, in press), we reappraise the structure and physical properties of this small molecule within this context. Hydrogen peroxide is the smallest, simplest molecule to exist as a pair of non-superimposable mirror images, or enantiomers, a fact which leads us to develop the hypothesis that its enantiospecific interactions with ribonucleic acids led to enantioselective outcomes. We propose a mechanism by which these chiral interactions may have led to amplification of D-ribonucleic acids and extinction of L-ribonucleic acids.
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- Rowena Ball
- Mathematical Sciences Institute and Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2602, Australia.
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- School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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Leal LA, da Cunha WF, Roncaratti LF, Silva GME, Gargano R. H 2O 2–Ng dynamics predictions using an accurate potential energy surface. Mol Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2015.1078507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Roncaratti LF, Leal LA, Pirani F, Aquilanti V, e Silva GM, Gargano R. Chirality of weakly bound complexes: the potential energy surfaces for the hydrogen-peroxide-noble-gas interactions. J Chem Phys 2015; 141:134309. [PMID: 25296808 DOI: 10.1063/1.4897136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We consider the analytical representation of the potential energy surfaces of relevance for the intermolecular dynamics of weakly bound complexes of chiral molecules. In this paper we study the H2O2-Ng (Ng=He, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe) systems providing the radial and the angular dependence of the potential energy surface on the relative position of the Ng atom. We accomplish this by introducing an analytical representation which is able to fit the ab initio energies of these complexes in a wide range of geometries. Our analysis sheds light on the role that the enantiomeric forms and the symmetry of the H2O2 molecule play on the resulting barriers and equilibrium geometries. The proposed theoretical framework is useful to study the dynamics of the H2O2 molecule, or other systems involving O-O and S-S bonds, interacting by non-covalent forces with atoms or molecules and to understand how the relative orientation of the O-H bonds changes along collisional events that may lead to a hydrogen bond formation or even to selectivity in chemical reactions.
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- L F Roncaratti
- Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília, 70910 Brasília, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília, 70910 Brasília, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília, 70910 Brasília, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília, 70910 Brasília, Brazil
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Aligned molecules: chirality discrimination in photodissociation and in molecular dynamics. RENDICONTI LINCEI-SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s12210-013-0248-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Parker SM, Ratner MA, Seideman T. Coherent control of molecular torsion. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:224301. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3663710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Baei MT, Moradi AV, Torabi P, Moghimi M. Adsorption properties of H2O2 trapped inside a boron phosphide nanotube. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s00706-011-0548-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Aligned molecular collisions and a stereodynamical mechanism for selective chirality. RENDICONTI LINCEI-SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s12210-011-0123-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Zheng J, Yu T, Papajak E, Alecu IM, Mielke SL, Truhlar DG. Practical methods for including torsional anharmonicity in thermochemical calculations on complex molecules: The internal-coordinate multi-structural approximation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:10885-907. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cp02644a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ross SC, Yamada KMT, Ito F. Torsion-rotation coupling and the determination of the torsional potential energy function of HSOH. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 12:11133-50. [PMID: 20668738 DOI: 10.1039/c001932a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hindered torsional motion in a molecule such as HSOH leads to tunnelling splittings. Lying between the simpler limiting cases of strongly hindered torsion (the "we can simply neglect the tunnelling" limit) and that of free internal rotation (the "tunnelling pair of levels are just different vibrational states" limit) HSOH is particularly challenging due to strong and inherent torsion-rotation coupling. The low symmetry due to the different terminal moieties, SH and OH, further enriches the energy level pattern by allowing a systematic mixing within each quadruplet of torsion- and asymmetry-doubled levels. This mixing, which varies in a systematic manner with angular momentum quantum numbers, can reach 50% and is in addition to the mass-dependent and quasicyclic variation of the tunnelling splittings. We show that a carefully implemented reduced-dimension model, the Generalised SemiRigid Bender (GSRB), combined with a few modest ab initio calculations, is sufficient to account for the bulk of these physical effects. We also point out the reversal of energy pairing of torsional levels with increased energy. That is, at low torsional energy the lowest of the torsional level pair is the symmetric level while at high torsional energy it is the antisymmetric level which is the lowest. Finally, we present a purely empirical determination of the tunnelling splittings for K = 0, 1, 3, 4, and 5.
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- Stephen C Ross
- Department of Physics and Centre for Laser, Atomic, and Molecular Sciences, University of New Brunswick, P. O. Box 4400, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Canada.
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Ragni M, Lombardi A, Barreto PRP, Bitencourt ACP. Orthogonal coordinates and hyperquantization algorithm. The NH3 and H3O+ umbrella inversion levels. J Phys Chem A 2009; 113:15355-65. [PMID: 19757778 DOI: 10.1021/jp906415m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In order to describe the umbrella inversion mode, which is characteristic of AB(3)-type molecules, we have introduced an alternative hyperspherical coordinate set based on a parametrization of Radau-Smith orthogonal vectors and have considered constraints which allow us to enforce the C(3v) symmetry. Structural properties and electronic energies at equilibrium and barrier configurations have been obtained at MP2 and CCSD(T) levels of theory. Energy profiles have been calculated using the CCSD(T) method with an aug-cc-pVQZ basis set. The NH(3) and H(3)O(+) umbrella inversion levels are obtained by the hyperquantization algorithm for a one-dimensional calculation, using a specially defined hyperangle as the inversion coordinate. The results are compared with experimental and theoretical energy levels, in particular, with those obtained by calculations based on two-dimensional models. The emerging picture of the umbrella inversion based on this hyperangular coordinate compares favorably with respect to the usual valence-type description.
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- M Ragni
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitá di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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Ramachandran C, Fazio DD, Sathyamurthy N, Aquilanti V. Guest species trapped inside carbon nanotubes. Chem Phys Lett 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.03.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Aquilanti V, Ragni M, Bitencourt ACP, Maciel GS, Prudente FV. Intramolecular Dynamics of RS−SR′ Systems (R, R′ = H, F, Cl, CH3, C2 H5): Torsional Potentials, Energy Levels, Partition Functions. J Phys Chem A 2009; 113:3804-13. [DOI: 10.1021/jp8094215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Vincenzo Aquilanti
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy, and Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy, and Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy, and Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy, and Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy, and Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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