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The lack of intramolecular hydrogen bonding and the side chain effect in alanine conformers
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Journal Of Molecular Structure. Elsevier Science Bv, v. 1014, n. 12, n. 16, 2012.
0022-2860
WOS:000302762100003
10.1016/j.molstruc.2012.01.047
Autor
Cormanich, RA
Ducati, LC
Rittner, R
Institución
Resumen
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Although amino acids are considered one of the most important classes of compounds found in Nature, the literature has few reports that have been made to understand the intramolecular interactions that govern their conformational energies and geometries. Actually, it has been arbitrarily assigned that possible intramolecular hydrogen bonding is the responsible force that dictates amino acid conformational preferences. In this paper, calculations at B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory within the NBO and QTAIM frameworks have shown that hyperconjugation and steric effects interplay, not H-bonding, are the intramolecular interactions that govern alanine conformational preferences. It is also shown that the steric interactions between the alanine methyl group side chain and its main chain influences its energies and geometries. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1014 12 16 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)