22534-19-6Relevant articles and documents
Gas-phase basicity measurements of dipeptides that contain valine
Gorman, Greg S.,Amster
, p. 5729 - 5735 (1993)
Gas-phase basicities of 22 dipeptides that contain valine were measured by a double bracketing method in a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance spectrometer. Matrix-assisted laser desorption was used to generate protonated peptide ions which were reacted with reference compounds to bracket the gas-phase basicity. In addition, neutral peptide molecules were formed by substrate-assisted laser desorption and with protonated reference ions to confirm the assignment of the gas-phase basicity. The rate of proton transfer between the protonated molecule of alanylvaline and six reference compounds was measured to examine the behavior of both exoergic and endoergic reactions. Gas-phase basicities of most of the dipeptides were found to be nearly equal to that of their most basic amino acid residue. The results are consistent with an intramolecular hydrogen bond between the N-terminus nitrogen and the amide carbonyl oxygen of a dipeptide. Furthermore, the results suggest that inductive effects cause an increase in the strength of the intramolecular hydrogen bond that the in the basicity of the C-terminus amino acid residue. Dipeptides VF and VY are more basic than their constituent amino acids. These data and molecular mechanics calculations suggest that these two peptides are stabilized by an electrostatic interaction between the N-terminal ammonium ion and the polarizable electrons of the aromatic side chain of the C-terminus.
Temperature and Pressure Effects on the Reversible Reaction of a Parent Phenol (GH) Corresponding to Galvinoxyl with Aliphatic Amines
Nishimura, Norio,Iga, Siroh,Satoh, Masahiro,Yamamoto, Shunzo
, p. 2437 - 2441 (2007/10/02)
The effects of temperature and pressure on the reversible reaction between GH and aliphatic amines in acetonitrile have been studied spectrophotometrically.The formation of the free ions rather than that of ion pairs has been confirmed by the modified Benesi-Hildebrand (B-H) plot.From the plot the equilibrium constants were estimated.From the temperature dependence of the equilibrium constant (K), the heat and entropy of reactions were estimated to be: (ΔH0)av=-44.5 kJ mol-1, and (ΔS0)av=-193 J K-1 mol-1.From the pressure dependence of K the reaction volume (ΔV0)av was estimated to be -40 dm3 mol-1.When unbranched primary amines were used, a side reaction took place for which an explanation has been given.
Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Gas-Phase Protonation of Vinyl Ethers, Vinyl Sulfides, and Vinyl Selenides
Oesapay, K.,Delhalle, J.,Nsunda, K. M.,Rolli, E.,Houriet, R.,Hevesi, L.
, p. 5028 - 5036 (2007/10/02)
A series of nine chalcogen-substituted ethylenes (chalcogen = O, S, Se) have been synthesized, and their gas-phase proton affinities (PA) were determined experimentally by measuring gas-phase basicities (GB) in an ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) spectrometer and theoretically by means of ab initio MO calculations at the STO-3G and 3-21G* levels.A satisfactory correlation (r = 0.978, slope = 1.41) has been obtained between the experimental and calculated 3-21G(*) values.In contrast with a number of previous reports, we consistently found that third- (SMe) and fourth-row (SeMe) substituents do not stabilize better the adjecent positive charge than does the second-row substituent OMe, even in the gas phase.In fact, comparison of experimental proton affinity value of ethylene with that of mono(methylchalco)ethylenes indicates that OMe, SMe, and SeMe groups stabilize the corresponding ethyl cations to very much the same extent.In 2-propyl cations the trend is O > S > Se, but the differences (δΔ in Table III) are quite small: 1.2 kcal mol-1 between O and S and 1.4 kcal mol-1 between S and Se.The superior ability of oxygen in carbenium ion stabilization appears the most clearly in the protonation of bis(methylchalco)ethylenes: dimethoxyethyl cation is more stable than the corresponding thio species by ca. 5.5 kcal mol-1, whereas dithio- and diselenocarbenium ions again have very similar stabilities.These conclusions are supported and extended by ab initio results on optimized geometries.
