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Infrared bandshapes of intramolecularly H-bonded systems—III. Vibrational dephasing of vs (OH) in 2,6-dichlorophenol
1987
Abstract The shape of the v s (OH) absorption band of intramolecularly H-bonded 2,6-dichlorophenol was measured in a series of solvents of increasing polarity and quantitatively analyzed. A distinct dependence of band positions, shape parameters, band moments, integrated intensities, correlation functions and correlation times on the polarity of solvent has been found. Vibrational dephasing due to dipole—dipole interactions seems to be an important relaxation pathway determining the bandshape in the studied systems.
A theoretical study of solvent effects on the conformational equilibria of neutral glycine in aqueous solution
2003
Abstract In this work conformational equilibrium of neutral glycine in solution is systematically investigated by using DFT and MP2 methods combined with solvent continuum models. A systematic exploration of the potential energy surface and full geometry optimizations for several conformers have been carried out in the gas phase and aqueous solution at the MP2/6-31+G** and B3LYP/6-31+G** levels. Zero-point and thermal contributions to the free energy have been obtained at the B3LYP level. Both theoretical levels lead to very similar results, in geometrical and energetic terms, both in the gas phase and in solution. Solvent effects play an important role on the conformational equilibria of n…
Amino Acid Chemistry in Solution: Structural Study and Vibrational Dynamics of Glutamine in Solution. An ab Initio Reaction Field Model
1998
The self-consistent reaction field (SCRF) theory was used to study structural and vibrational features of the amino acid L-glutamine in solution. Raman and infrared spectra of this molecule in solutions of H 2O and D2O were recorded and measured. The bands were firstly assigned on the basis of the isotopic shifts. An ab initio quadratic force field at the 6-31 +G* level was achieved. The calculation simulated a polar solvent by placing the molecule in an ellipsoidal cavity surrounded by a continuum dielectric. The theoretical results, in terms of structural parameters, vibrational frequencies and descriptions, and infrared intensities, were in satisfactory agreement with the experimental da…
Amino acid chemistry in solution: structural properties and vibrational dynamics of serine using density functional theory and a continuum solvent mo…
2004
A structural and vibrational study of amino acid serine in aqueous solution has been carried out using Fourier transform spectroscopies and quantum mechanical calculations. FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra of serine in H2O and D2O solutions were recorded and a general assignment of the observed bands was proposed on the basis of a zwitterionic structure for serine. Main criteria were the observed wavenumber shifts upon deuteration and previous assignments for other amino acids. A quadratic force field was computed using ab initio methodology at the 6-31+G** level and the hybrid functional B3LYP. The solvent effect was simulated by placing the serine molecule into an ellipsoidal cavity surrounded …
Determination of the relative quantum yields of the conformational species of autoassociating polypeptide gramicidin A in organic solvent using combi…
1987
Abstract A simple, novel method is proposed for the accurate determination of the relative quantum yields of each of the interconverting conformational species of the autoassociating polypeptide gramicidin A in organic solution. The method is based on fitting the experimental results obtained independently from fluorescence emission spectroscopy and high performance liquid chromatography. The fluorescence parameters obtained are discussed in terms of the structural features of the individual conformational species. The advantages of this approach and its possible application to other different organic solvents or to other autoassociating polypeptides are also considered.
Intermolecular coupling influence on conformations of molecules in solution
1994
Abstract The influence of non-specific intermolecular interactions on conformational equilibria of organic molecules is investigated with the help of the London-Debye-Keesom pair coupling potentials. It is shown that in a series of apolar solvents equilibrium constant logarithms are proportional to ζα ≡ Z αs/ R 6s,d, and in a series of polar solvents equilibrium constants logarithms are proportional to ζμ ≡ Z μ2s/ R 6s,d, where Z is the average number of neighbours of a solute molecule in the first coordination sphere, αs is the polarizability, μs the dipole moment of solvent molecules, and R s,d = R s + R d is the sum of the radii of spherical volumes per molecule of solvent (s) and dissol…
Stability of thin polymer films: influence of solvents.
2004
The interface and surface properties and the wetting behavior of polymer-solvent mixtures are investigated using Monte Carlo simulations and self-consistent field calculations. We carry out Monte Carlo simulations in the framework of a coarse-grained bead-spring model using short chains (oligomers) of N(P)=5 beads and a monomeric solvent, N(S)=1. The self-consistent field calculations are based on a simple phenomenological equation of state for compressible binary mixtures and we employ Gaussian chain model. The bulk behavior of the polymer-solvent mixture belongs to type III in the classification of van Konynenburg and Scott [Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 298, 495 (1980)]. It is char…
Kinetic solvent effects on the reaction of an aromatic ketone pi,pi* triplet with phenol. rate-retarding and rate-accelerating effects of hydrogen-bo…
2007
Quenching of the 2-benzoylthiophene π,π* triplet, 3BT*, by phenol yields the corresponding ketyl and phenoxyl radicals. Reaction rates were measured in 10 solvents having a range of hydrogen-bond acceptor strengths (β2H values). There appear to be two mechanisms: (i) a bimolecular reaction of 3BT* with “free” (i.e., not H-bonded) phenol in which the 3BT* accepts both a proton and an electron from the phenol, the rate decreasing as β2H increases; (ii) a trimolecular reaction of 3BT* with phenol that is H-bonded to a solvent molecule, PhO−H···S, in which the proton goes to the S and the electron to the 3BT*, the rate increasing as β2H increases.
Unexpected Reaction of the Unsaturated Cluster Host and Catalyst [Pd3(3-CO)(dppm)3]2+ with the Hydroxide Ion: Spectroscopic and Kinetic Evidence of a…
2006
The title cluster, [Pd(3)(mu(3)-CO)(dppm)(3)](2+) (dppm=bis(diphenylphosphino)methane), reacts with one equivalent of hydroxide anions (OH(-)), from tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (Bu(4)NOH), to give the paramagnetic [Pd(3)(mu(3)-CO)(dppm)(3)](+) species. Reaction with another equivalent of OH(-) leads to the zero-valent compound [Pd(3)(mu(3)-CO)(dppm)(3)](0). From electron paramagnetic resonance analysis of the reaction medium using the spin-trap agent 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide (DMPO), the 2-tetrahydrofuryl or methyl radicals, deriving from the tetrahydrofuran (THF) or dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solvent, respectively, were detected. For both [Pd(3)(mu(3)-CO)(dppm)(3)](2+) and [Pd(3)(mu…
A DFT study of the mechanism and selectivities of the [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction between 3-(benzylideneamino)oxindole and trans -β-nitrostyrene
2016
The mechanism and regioselectivities and stereoselectivities of the [3 + 2] cycloaddition (32CA) reaction of 3-(benzylideneamino) oxindole (AY) and trans-β-nitrostyrene have been studied using both B3LYP and ωB97XD density functional theory methods together with the standard 6-31G(d) basis set. Four reactive pathways associated with the ortho and meta regioselective channels and endo and exo stereoselective approaches modes have been explored and characterized. While the B3LYP functional fails to predict the experimental regioselectivity, the ωB97XD one succeeds to predict the experimentally observed meta regioselectivity favoring the formation of meta/endo cycloadduct as the major isomer. …