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Article
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1.4 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
Abstract
A 1H NMR study shows the presence of intermolecular hydrogen bonds for AHLs in CDCl3 solution. A detailed computational study of the structure of AHLs and the relative stability between the extended conformations (X) and those showing n → π* interactions (np) have been carried out by means of DFT calculations. Solvent effects have been shown to be very important when stabilising np conformations, particularly with polar solvents. This was shown by the shortening of C⋯O intramolecular distances and the increase in the relative energies favouring the np conformation with the dielectric constant of the solvent. The charge transfer between the O donor and the acceptor carbonyl group, assessed by second order perturbation energies, E(2), also shows an increase in the E(2) values with the dielectric constant of the solvent.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpc.2018.04.002
Recommended Citation
Goar Sánchez-Sanz, Darren Crowe, Alan Nicholson, Adrienne Fleming, Ed Carey, Fintan Kelleher, Conformational studies of Gram-negative bacterial quorum sensing acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) molecules: The importance of the n → π* interaction, Biophysical Chemistry, Volume 238, 2018, Pages 16-21, ISSN 0301-4622, DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2018.04.002.
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Biophysical Chemistry