Today prof. Kaoru Yamanouchi and prof. Kiichiro Hotayama from the University of Tokyo have visited the Center.
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23
Dec 2014
Visitors from the University of Tokyo
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22
Dec 2014
J. Phys. Chem. A, 2014
E.Yu. Tupikina, G.S. Denisov, P.M. Tolstoy
“NMR Study of CHN Hydrogen Bond and Proton Transfer in 1,1-dinitroethane Complex with 2,4,6-trimethylpyridine”
J. Phys. Chem. A., 2014, accepted
Intermolecular complex with CHN hydrogen bond formed by 1,1-dinitroethane (DNE) and 2,4,6-trimethylpyridine (collidine) dissolved in CD2Cl2 was studied experimentally by 1H NMR spectroscopy at 180-300 K. Equilibrium between molecular CH⋅⋅⋅N form and zwitterionic C−/HN+ form was detected in slow exchange regime in NMR time scale. No sign of direct C−⋅⋅⋅HN+ bond was observed; the ion pair is likely to be held by Coulomb interactions. Moreover, there are indications that the protonated base is involved in formation of homo-conjugated (NHN)+ collidine-collidinium hydrogen bonded complexes.
The reaction pathway of proton transfer in DNE-pyiridine complex in vacuum was studied computationally at B3LYP/6-31++G(d,p) level of theory. NMR chemical shifts and coupling constants were calculated for a series of snapshots along the proton transfer coordinate. While central carbon atom has pyramidal (sp3) configuration in DNE, it is flat (sp2) in DNE carbanion. As a result, the most indicative computed NMR parameter reflecting hybridization of carbon atom appeared to be 1JCC, which starts to change rapidly as soon as structure with quasi-symmetric C⋅⋅H⋅⋅N bond is reached. Couplings within the hydrogen bridge, 1JCH, 1hJHN and 2JCN, can serve as good indicators of the degree of proton transfer.
10
Dec 2014
Chem. Eur. J., 2014
I.G. Shenderovich, S.B. Lesnichin, C. Tu, D.N. Silverman, P.M. Tolstoy, G.S. Denisov, H.-H. Limbach
“NMR Studies of Active Site Properties of Human Carbonic Anhydrase II using 15N labeled 4-Methylimidazole as a Local Probe and Histidine Hydrogen Bond Correlations”
Chem. Eur. J., 2014, accepted
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404083
By using a combination of liquid and solid-state NMR spectroscopy, 15N-labeled 4-methylimidazole (4-MI) as a local probe of the environment has been studied: 1) in the polar, wet Freon CDF3/CDF2Cl down to 130 K, 2) in water at pH 12, and 3) in solid samples of the mutant H64A of human carbonic anhydrase II (HCA II). In the latter, the active-site His64 residue is replaced by alanine; the catalytic activity is, however, rescued by the presence of 4-MI. For the Freon solution, it is demonstrated that addition of water molecules not only catalyzes proton tautomerism but also lifts its quasidegeneracy. The possible hydrogen-bond clusters formed and the mechanism of the automerism are discussed. Information about the imidazole hydrogen-bond geometries is obtained by establishing a correlation between published 1H and 15N chemical shifts of the imidazole rings of histidines in proteins. This correlation is useful to distinguish histidines embedded in the interior of proteins and those at the surface, embedded in water. Moreover, evidence is obtained that the hydrogen-bond geometries of His64 in the active site of HCA II and of 4-MI in H64A HCA II are similar. Finally, the degeneracy of the rapid tautomerism of the neutral imidazole ring His64 reported by Shimahara et al. (J. Biol. Chem. 2007, 282, 9646) can be explained with a wet, polar, nonaqueous active-site conformation in the inward conformation, similar to the properties of 4-MI in the Freon solution. The biological implications for the enzyme mechanism are discussed.
05
Dec 2014
Spinus-2014
Our contribution to the 11th Winter School conference “Magnetic Resonance and its applications”, Spinus-2014 (title of report in Russian):
1. Толстой П. М., Чан-Хут М., Шазад Ш., Тони М., Шендерович И. Г., Денисов Г. С., Лимбах Х. Х., «Исследование кооперативности водородных связей в витамин B6-зависимых ферментах и модельных системах методом ЯМР»
2. Кукушкина Е.В., Шеляпина М.Г., «ЯМР 51V в неупорядоченных сплавах Fe(1-x)V(x) и YFe(12-x)V(x)»
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03
Dec 2014
Lecture for first year masters
The NMR lecture for first year masters was lead today in center.
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03
Dec 2014
Inorg. Chem., 2014
T.M. Dau, Y.-A. Chen, A.J. Karttunen, E.V. Grachova, S.P. Tunik, K.-T. Lin, W.-Y. Hung, P.-T. Chou, T.A. Pakkanen, I.O. Koshevoy
“Tetragold(I) Complexes: Solution Isomerization and Tunable Solid-State Luminescence”
Inorg. Chem., 2014, accepted
DOI: 10.1021/ic501470v
In this study, a new family of tetranuclear gold(I)triphosphine derivatives bearing alkynyl and thiolate groups have been efficiently synthesized by treating the polymeric acetylides (AuC2R)n or a thiolate (AuSPh)n sequentially with the (a) phosphine ligand and (b) cationic complex [Au3(P^P^P)2]3+ (P^P^P = PPh2CH2PPhCH2PPh2). The clusters [Au4(P^P^P)2(C2R)2]2+ [R= Ph (1), biphenyl (2), terphenyl (3), C6H4OMe (4), C6H4NMe2 (5), C6H11O (6), and C6H4CF3 (7)] and [Au4(P^P^P)2(SPh)2]2+(8) were characterized by X-ray crystallography in the solid state.
NMR spectroscopic investigations in solution revealed that the majority of alkynyl clusters 1−7 exist as two isomeric species in slow chemical equilibria. All complexes 1−8 exhibit moderate-to-strong photoemission in the solid state with quantum yields from 0.07 to 0.51. The luminescence behavior was rationalized using quantum chemical density functional theory methods. The high emission efficiency of these tetragold(I) compounds and their good stability in film allowed for the fabrication of an organic electroluminescent device (OLED). Employing complex 5 (Φ = 0.51), an OLED was fabricated under a solution process to give a good external quantum efficiency of 3.1%, corresponding to a current efficiency of 6.1 cd/A and a power efficiency of 5.3 lm/W, with Commission Internationale de I’Eclairage coordinates of (0.52, 0.46).
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02
Dec 2014
M. A. Vovk has presented a lecture
On December 2nd M.A. Vovk (CMR specialist) has presented a lecture titled “NMR studies of mobility of inverse micelles: diffusion coefficients and correlations between them”
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01
Dec 2014
Russ. J. Org. Chem., 2014, 50, 389-393
A.V. Stepakov, A.G. Larina, V.M. Boitsov, A.P. Molchanov
“Reaction of 6,6-dimethylfulvene with aromatic imines in the presence of Lewis acids”
Russ. J. Org. Chem., 2014, 50,389-393 (russ. 404-408)
DOI: 10.1134/S1070428014030154
Formal aza-Diels-Alder (Povarov) reaction of 6,6-dimethylfulvene with aromatic imines is described for the first time.
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Dec 2014
Russ. J. Org. Chem., 2014, 50, 78-82
A. P. Molchanov,T. Q. Tran, A. V. Stepakov, G. L. Starova, R. R. Kostikov
«Regioselective cycloaddition of C-carbamoylnitrones to methyl (E)-2-(2-phenylcyclopropylidene)acetate and methyl (E)-2-methylidene-3-phenylcyclopropane-1-carboxylate»
Russ. J. Org. Chem., 2014, 50, 78-82 (russ. 84-88)
DOI: 10.1134/S1070428014010151
N-Aryl-C-(arylcarbamoyl)nitrones regioselectively add to methyl 2-(2-phenylcyclopropylidene)-acetate and methyl 2-methylidene-3-phenylcyclopropanecarboxylate to give in each case two diastereoisomeric 5-oxa-6-azaspiro[2.4]heptane-4-carboxylates.
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