New Insight into Solution Structure and Dynamics of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Viruses from Raman Optical Activity

Ld, Barron; Blanch, Ewan W.; Af, Bell; Cd, Syme; La, Day; Hecht, Liselotte I.

doi:10.1021/bk-2002-0810.ch003

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“…The inherent difficulties and limitations of these schemes have motivated substantial efforts to identify alternative means for discriminating chiral structure, particularly in systems where pronounced conformational flexibility or unusual bonding motifs preclude the use of established techniques. Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of chiro-optical spectroscopy − for the in situ assignment of absolute molecular configuration, with the complementary vibrationally mediated probes of Raman optical activity (ROA) and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) found to be especially promising. The concerted experimental and theoretical work reported in this paper focuses on the related phenomenon of nonresonant optical activity, ,, ultimately striving to transform such facile polarimetric measurements into versatile tools for the extraction of (absolute) stereochemical information.…”

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Nonresonant Optical Activity of Isolated Organic Molecules

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Cavity ring-down polarimetry (CRDP) has been exploited to interrogate the nonresonant optical activity (or circular birefringence) of prototypical organic compounds in the vapor phase, thereby revealing the intrinsic chiro-optical response evoked from isolated (solvent-free) molecules. Specific polarization rotation parameters have been measured at two distinct excitation wavelengths (355 nm and 633 nm) for a variety of gas-phase species drawn from the terpene, epoxide, and alkane/alkene families, with complementary solution-phase polarimetric studies serving to highlight the pronounced influence of solute-solvent interactions. Time-dependent linear response calculations performed at high levels of density functional theory have been enlisted to unravel the structural and electronic origins for observed behavior. Aside from elucidating the complex solvation processes that mediate chiro-optical phenomena taking place in condensed media, this study affords a critical assessment for emerging ab initio predictions of nonresonant optical activity and for their promising ability to assist in the determination of absolute molecular stereochemistry.

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