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Zhang P, Gardini AT, Xu X, Parrinello M. Intramolecular and Water Mediated Tautomerism of Solvated Glycine. J Chem Inf Model 2024; 64:3599-3604. [PMID: 38620066 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
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Understanding tautomerism and characterizing solvent effects on the dynamic processes pose significant challenges. Using enhanced-sampling molecular dynamics based on state-of-the-art deep learning potentials, we investigated the tautomeric equilibria of glycine in water. We observed that the tautomerism between neutral and zwitterionic glycine can occur through both intramolecular and intermolecular proton transfers. The latter proceeds involving a contact anionic-glycine-hydronium ion pair or separate cationic-glycine-hydroxide ion pair. These pathways with comparable barriers contribute almost equally to the reaction flux.
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- Pengchao Zhang
- Center for Combustion Energy, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, and Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Atomistic Simulations, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova 16152, Italy
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- Atomistic Simulations, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova 16152, Italy
- Department of Materials Science, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy
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- Center for Combustion Energy, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, and Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Atomistic Simulations, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova 16152, Italy
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Moscato D, Mandelli G, Bondanza M, Lipparini F, Conte R, Mennucci B, Ceotto M. Unraveling Water Solvation Effects with Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Semiclassical Vibrational Spectroscopy: The Case of Thymidine. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:8179-8188. [PMID: 38470354 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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We introduce a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics semiclassical method for studying the solvation process of molecules in water at the nuclear quantum mechanical level with atomistic detail. We employ it in vibrational spectroscopy calculations because this is a tool that is very sensitive to the molecular environment. Specifically, we look at the vibrational spectroscopy of thymidine in liquid water. We find that the C═O frequency red shift and the C═C frequency blue shift, experienced by thymidyne upon solvation, are mainly due to reciprocal polarization effects, that the molecule and the water solvent exert on each other, and nuclear zero-point energy effects. In general, this work provides an accurate and practical tool to study quantum vibrational spectroscopy in solution and condensed phase, incorporating high-level and computationally affordable descriptions of both electronic and nuclear problems.
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- Davide Moscato
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi, 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi, 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi, 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Golgi, 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Barbiero D, Bertaina G, Ceotto M, Conte R. Anharmonic Assignment of the Water Octamer Spectrum in the OH Stretch Region. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:6213-6221. [PMID: 37477983 PMCID: PMC10405218 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c02902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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We interface the quasi-classical trajectory approach with an ab initio potential energy surface for water to assign the vibrational spectroscopical features of the OH stretch region of the water octamer cluster, which is considered to be a precursor of ice. An attempt by Li et al. to assign their recent reference experiment involved lower-level calculations based on an ad hoc scaled harmonic approach. Differently from the conclusions of this previous assignment, which invoked the contribution of 5 conformers and a solvated form of the water heptamer in the spectrum, we find out that the spectroscopic features can be related to the 4 conformers of the octamer lying lower in energy.
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- Davide Barbiero
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Milano, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Istituto
Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, I-10135 Torino, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Milano, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Milano, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Wang E, Kling NG, LaForge AC, Obaid R, Pathak S, Bhattacharyya S, Meister S, Trost F, Lindenblatt H, Schoch P, Kübel M, Pfeifer T, Rudenko A, Díaz-Tendero S, Martín F, Moshammer R, Rolles D, Berrah N. Ultrafast Roaming Mechanisms in Ethanol Probed by Intense Extreme Ultraviolet Free-Electron Laser Radiation: Electron Transfer versus Proton Transfer. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:4372-4380. [PMID: 37140167 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Ultrafast H2+ and H3+ formation from ethanol is studied using pump-probe spectroscopy with an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) free-electron laser. The first pulse creates a dication, triggering H2 roaming that leads to H2+ and H3+ formation, which is disruptively probed by a second pulse. At photon energies of 28 and 32 eV, the ratio of H2+ to H3+ increases with time delay, while it is flat at a photon energy of 70 eV. The delay-dependent effect is ascribed to a competition between electron and proton transfer. High-level quantum chemistry calculations show a flat potential energy surface for H2 formation, indicating that the intermediate state may have a long lifetime. The ab initio molecular dynamics simulation confirms that, in addition to the direct emission, a small portion of H2 undergoes a roaming mechanism that leads to two competing pathways: electron transfer from H2 to C2H4O2+ and proton transfer from C2H4O2+ to H2.
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- Enliang Wang
- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2604, United States
- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046, United States
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- Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046, United States
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- Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046, United States
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- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2604, United States
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- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2604, United States
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- Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, D-07743 Jena, Germany
- Helmholtz Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2604, United States
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- Departamento de Química, Módulo 13, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Módulo 13, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA-Nano), Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2604, United States
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- Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046, United States
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Chakraborty S, Mandal K, Ramakrishnan R. Understanding the Role of Intramolecular Ion-Pair Interactions in Conformational Stability Using an Ab Initio Thermodynamic Cycle. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:648-660. [PMID: 36638237 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Intramolecular ion-pair interactions yield shape and functionality to many molecules. With proper orientation, these interactions overcome steric factors and are responsible for the compact structures of several peptides. In this study, we present a thermodynamic cycle based on isoelectronic and alchemical mutation to estimate the intramolecular ion-pair interaction energy. We determine these energies for 26 benchmark molecules with common ion-pair combinations and compare them with results obtained using intramolecular symmetry-adapted perturbation theory. For systems with long linkers, the ion-pair energies evaluated using both approaches deviate by less than 2.5% in the vacuum phase. The thermodynamic cycle based on density functional theory facilitates calculations of salt-bridge interactions in model tripeptides with continuum/microsolvation modeling and four large peptides: 1EJG (crambin), 1BDK (bradykinin), 1L2Y (a mini-protein with a tryptophan cage), and 1SCO (a toxin from the scorpion venom).
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, Hyderabad500046, India
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Zhou Y, Cao Q, Yang Y, Ma D, Zhu Q, Ma J. Effect of (H 2O) n ( n = 0–3, 13) on the NH 3 + OH reaction in the gas and liquid phases. RSC Adv 2022; 12:28010-28019. [PMID: 36320266 PMCID: PMC9524257 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra04931g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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We studied the effect of water clusters on the NH3 + OH reaction at both the DFT and CCSD(T) levels. The calculated rate constants for the pure reaction are 2.07 × 10−13 and 1.35 × 10−13 cm3 molecule−1 s−1 in the gas and liquid phases, respectively, and the gas-phase rate constants are consistent with the corresponding experimental result (1.70 × 10−13 cm3 molecule−1 s−1), while the liquid-phase rate constants are slightly smaller than the experimental value (5.84 × 10−12 cm3 molecule−1 s−1). In the gas phase, the presence of (H2O)n (n = 1–3) decreases the rate constant compared to the pure NH3 + OH reaction, and these results are in agreement with many reported H2O-catalyzed reactions. For the liquid phase reaction, compared with the case of n = 0–3, when the size of the water molecule cluster surrounding the OH radical is n = 13, the rate constant of the title reaction increases. Our study also shows that proton transfer is also a factor which accelerates the liquid phase NH3 + OH reaction. We used DFT and CCSD(T) methods with PCM solvation model to study the water cluster effect and solvation effect on the NH3 + OH reaction.![]()
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- Yujie Zhou
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- Reactor Operation and Application Research Sub-Institute, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Reactor Operation and Application Research Sub-Institute, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, PR China
- Engineering Research Center of Combustion and Cooling for Aerospace Power, Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, PR China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
- Engineering Research Center of Combustion and Cooling for Aerospace Power, Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, PR China
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