氨氯地平圆二色谱的理论解析

采用量子化学密度泛函理论(DFT)和含时密度泛函理论(TD-DFT)在B3LYP/6-311++G**水平上对氨氯地平分子的圆二色谱进行理论研究。计算结果表明:振动圆二色谱(VCD)的803、1113、1190、1238、1348、1509、1514、1736、2972、3022和3091 cm-1处存在吸收峰,产生以上吸收峰的振动均涉及到分子手性中心或者所处的基团与分子手性中心形成相关。研究还发现,甲醇溶液使电子圆二色谱(ECD)的吸收峰红移;甲醇溶液中,S-氨氯地平的ECD谱在207、366 nm处存在正性康登效应,223 nm处存在负性康登效应;以上吸收峰均来源于π-π*电子跃迁。这些结论对于深入理解氨氯地平的手征光学性质具有一定的指导意义。     

火菇素的圆二色性与溶液二级结构

为了弄清火菇素蛋白的结构与功能的关系并揭示抗癌机理,使其更好地发挥临床作用,测定了火菇素的圆二色性,并用蛋白质二级结构解析程序分析了火菇素的溶液二级结构。火菇素远紫外圆二色性的研究表明,其水溶液在208nm处表现为宽大负峰,最大平均残基摩尔椭圆度[θ]~2~0~8=-6574deg·cm^2·dmol^-^1,在223nm处为肩,经二级结构解析程序计算分析,火菇素的二级结构和二硫键和芳香氨基酸对火菇素圆二色性的贡献分别为77.4%和22.6%,二级结构的组成为：α-螺旋19.7%,β-折叠和β-转角50.1%,无规卷曲和γ-转角30.2%。火菇素二级结构对pH,SDS和乙醇有一定的稳定性,在pH4.6～9.4范围内,火菇素的结构几乎不发生变化,但在碱性太强的环境中火菇素发生不可逆变性,火菇素对热变性很敏感。     

Circular dichroism spectra of the inclusion complexes of phlorizin in cyclodextrins

Two aromatic rings of a phlorizin molecule form inclusion complexes with -CD and -CD. Induced circular dichroism spectra of these complexes have been measured to estimate the orientation of the two aromatic rings in the hydrophobic space of CDs. Apparent complex formation constants have been also estimated for each complex. It is concluded that phlorizin forms a stronger inclusion complex with -CD than with -CD.     

新型海洋双吲哚类生物碱的研究进展

双吲哚类生物碱是近年来分离到的一类很重要的海洋天然产物。由于这类化合物具有新颖的化学结构和多种生理活性,因此它们引起了科学家极大的兴趣。本文综述了近年来新型海洋双吲哚类生物碱的研究进展。     

Origin‐independent sum over states simulations of magnetic and electronic circular dichroism spectra via the localized orbital/local origin method

Although electronic and magnetic circular dichroism (ECD, MCD) spectra reveal valuable details about molecular geometry and electronic structure, quantum‐chemical simulations significantly facilitate their interpretation. However, the simulated results may depend on the choice of coordinate origin. Previously (?těpánek and Bou?, J. Comput. Chem. 2013, 34, 1531), the sum‐over‐states (SOS) methodology was found useful for efficient MCD computations. Approximate wave functions were “resolved” using time‐dependent density functional theory, and the origin‐dependence was avoided by placing the origin to the center of mass of the investigated molecule. In this study, a more elegant way is proposed, based on the localized orbital/local origin (LORG) formalism, and a similar approach is also applied to generate ECD intensities. The LORG‐like approach yields fully origin‐independent ECD and MCD spectra. The results thus indicate that the computationally relatively cheap SOS simulations open a new way of modeling molecular properties, including those involving the origin‐dependent magnetic dipole moment operator. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

秋水仙碱立体异构体电子结构及圆二色谱性质的理论研究

采用量子化学密度泛函理论(DFT)在B3LYP/6-311++G二水平上对秋水仙碱四个立体异构体分子几何构型进行了优化,在优化的基础上进行了振动圆二色谱(VCD),紫外-可见光谱(UV-Vis)和电子圆二色谱(ECD)研究.为模拟真实条件,以水为溶剂,计算其对分子电子结构和光谱性质的影响.研究结果表明:秋水仙碱四个立体...     

脱辅基神经红蛋白热稳定性的光谱法研究

采用酸丙酮法制备了脱辅基神经红蛋白(apo-Ngb)。利用紫外-可见吸收光谱和圆二色光谱(CD)对apo-Ngb的热稳定性进行了研究。结果表明,在高温下apo-Ngb发生了变性,其二级结构遭到破坏,α-螺旋的含量减少。计算得到了apo-Ngb热变性的中点温度(61.8℃)和热力学参数(ΔH=93.1 kJ·mol-1,ΔS=277.8J·mol-1·K-1)。与Ngb相比,由于血红素辅基的去除,apo-Ngb蛋白肽链结构变得疏松无序,从而使apo-Ngb的热稳定性有所降低。     

Circular dichroism induced by the helical conformations of acylated chitosan derivatives bearing cinnamate chromophores

Through regioselective modifications, some acylated chitosan derivatives, O‐cinnamoyl chitosans with degree of substitution (DS) varying from 0.8 to 2.0 and N‐fatty acyl‐O‐dicinnamoyl chitosans with different fatty acyl chain lengths (C₂–C₁₂), were prepared, and their chiroptical properties in dilute solutions were investigated by circular dichroism (CD). Exciton coupling between two vicinal cinnamoyl chromophores appended to the helical mainchains gave rise to bisignate Cotton effects (CEs), which were used to deduce the absolute sense of the twisting structures in solution phase. It was found that the absolute helicities vary with DS, length of the fatty chain, and solvent property, but are nearly independent of thermal stimulus. The molecular interactions (hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interaction) involved possibly in the self‐assembled ordered structures were discussed. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 43: 1354–1364, 2005     

Circular dichroism of some bisbenzyltetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids

The circular dichroism (CD) method has been used to study the stereochemistry of the bisbenzyltetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids. A relationship has been established between the absolute configurations of the asymmetric centers and the parameters of the Cotton effects in the CD spectra. The changes in the CD spectra on protonation have been correlated with conformational rearrangements of the molecules due to the different attachment of the oxygen bridges.     

Circular dichroism of some bisbenzyltetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids

The circular dichroism (CD) method has been used to study the stereochemistry of the bisbenzyltetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids. A relationship has been established between the absolute configurations of the asymmetric centers and the parameters of the Cotton effects in the CD spectra. The changes in the CD spectra on protonation have been correlated with conformational rearrangements of the molecules due to the different attachment of the oxygen bridges.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 818–823, November–December, 1979.     

Two Spectroscopies in One: Interference of Circular Dichroism and Raman Optical Activity

Previously, we and other laboratories have reported an unusual and strong Raman optical activity (ROA) induced in solvents by chiral dyes. Various theories of the phenomenon appeared, but they were not capable of explaining fully the observed ROA band signs and intensities. In this work, an analysis based both on the light scattering theory and dedicated experiments provides a more complete understanding. For example, double-cell magnetic circular dichroism and magnetic ROA experiments with copper-porphyrin complex show that the induced chirality is observed without any contact of the solvents with the complex. The results thus indicate that a combination of electronic circular dichroism (ECD) with the polarized Raman scattering is responsible for the effect. The degree of circularity of solvent vibrational bands is a principal molecular property participating in the event. The insight and the possibility to predict the chirality transfer promise future applications in spectroscopy, chemical analysis and polarized imaging.     

A vibrational circular dichroism implementation within a Slater-type-orbital based density functional framework and its application to hexa- and hepta-helicenes

We describe the implementation of the rotational strengths for vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) in the Slater-type orbital based Amsterdam Density Functional (ADF) package. We show that our implementation, which makes use of analytical derivative techniques and London atomic orbitals, yields origin independent rotational strengths. The basis set dependence in the particular case of Slater-type basis functions is also discussed. It turns out that the triple zeta STO basis sets with one set of polarization functions (TZP) are adequate for VCD calculations. The origin- dependence of the atomic axial tensors is checked by a distributed origin gauge implementation. The distributed and common origin gauge implementations yield virtually identical atomic axial tensors with the Slater-type basis sets employed here, proving that our implementation yields origin independent rotational strengths. We verify the implementation for a set of benchmark molecules, for which the dependence of the VCD spectra on the particular choice of the exchange–correlation functional is studied. The pure functionals BP86 and OLYP show a particularly good performance. Then, we apply this approach to study the VCD spectra of hexa- and hepta- helicenes. In particular we focus on relationships between the sign of the rotational strengths of the two helicenes. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi: ) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

Chiroptical analysis of marine sponge alkaloids sharing the pyrrolopyrazinone core

A systematic experimental study has been conducted on the chiroptical properties of bi‐ and tricyclic pyrrolopyrazinones, which occur as the core in a variety of marine pyrrole–imidazole alkaloids, such as the immunosuppressive palau'amine. On the basis of the chiral‐pool synthesis of conformationally fixed dipyrrolopyrazinones, it was possible to predict the CD spectrum of (?)‐dibromophakellin above 240 nm. 2,2,2‐Trifluoroethanol was identified as a superior solvent for this analysis. Positive Cotton effects at 250 nm can be used to determine the helicity of dibrominated pyrrolopyrazinones, while the intensity of the Cotton effect at 285 nm is governed by the relative stereochemistry. The influence of bromination of the pyrrole ring also becomes predictable. One of the tricycles can be considered as “conformationally frozen longamide A”. Our study also gives the first comparative Röntgen analyses of diastereomeric Mosher esters of N,O‐hemiacetals, with the results underlining the fact that caution is advised in the application of the advanced Mosher method.     

Circular dichroism and conformational dynamics of cephams and their carba and oxa analogues

The biological activity of bicyclic beta-lactam antibiotics depends strongly on the absolute configuration of the bridgehead carbon atom. Frelek and co-workers proposed an empirical helicity rule relating the configuration of the bridgehead carbon atom to the sign of the 220 nm band in the electronic circular dichroism (CD) spectrum of beta-lactams. Here we use synthetic organic chemistry, CD spectroscopy, and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to investigate the validity of this structure-property relationship for eight model compounds. For conformationally flexible beta-lactams, substantial thermal effects are found which must be included in calculations. To this end, we combine TDDFT calculations of CD with full quantum-mechanical Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for the first time. The CD spectra are sampled with ground-state density functional trajectories of up to 60 ps. The MD simulations show a surprisingly high sensitivity of the CD to the molecular conformation. On the other hand, the relation between CD and thermally averaged structural parameters is much less complex. While the helicity rule does not seem to hold for individual conformers, it is confirmed by the calculations for seven out of eight systems studied if thermally averaged CD spectra and structures are considered. Since thermal effects on CD can be larger than typical inherent inaccuracies of TDDFT, our results emphasize the need for a systematic treatment of conformational dynamics in CD calculations even for moderately flexible systems. Temperature-dependent CD measurements are very useful for this purpose. Our results also suggest that CD spectroscopy may be used as a sensitive probe of conformational dynamics if combined with electronic structure calculations.     

Interplay of Exciton Coupling and Large‐Amplitude Motions in the Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectrum of Dehydroquinidine

A detailed analysis of the computed structure, energies, vibrational absorption (VA) and circular dichroism (VCD) spectra of 30 low‐energy conformers of dehydroquinidine reveals the existence of families of pseudo‐conformers, the structures of which differ mostly in the orientation of a single O?H bond. The pseudo‐conformers in a family are separated by very small energy barriers (i.e., 1.0 kcal mol^?1 or smaller) and have very different VCD spectra. First, we demonstrate the unreliable character of the Boltzmann factors predicted with DFT. Then, we show that the large differences observed between the VCD spectra of the pseudo‐conformers in a family are caused by large‐amplitude motions involving the O?H bond, which trigger the appearance/disappearance of strong VCD exciton‐coupling bands in the fingerprint region. This interplay between exciton coupling and large‐amplitude‐motion phenomena demonstrates that when dealing with flexible molecules with polar bonds, vibrational averaging of VCD spectra should not be neglected. In this regard, the dehydroquinidine molecule considered here is expected to be a typical example and not the exception to the rule.