Neutral peptides in the gas phase: conformation and aggregation issues

E Gloaguen, M Mons, K Schwing… - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Combined IR and UV laser spectroscopic techniques in molecular beams merged with
theoretical approaches have proven to be an ideal tool to elucidate intrinsic structural …

Cold ion spectroscopy for structural identifications of biomolecules

OV Boyarkin - International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decade, the spectroscopy of cryogenically cold ions isolated in the gas phase
has been developed as a new tool for structural elucidations of biological molecules …

Evaluation of common theoretical methods for predicting infrared multiphotonic dissociation vibrational spectra of intramolecular hydrogen-bonded ions

AF Rodrigues-Oliveira, FW M. Ribeiro, G Cervi… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Infrared photodissociation analyses are supported by theoretical calculations that allow a
trustworthy interpretation of experimental spectra of gaseous ions. B3LYP calculations are …

Probing the conformational landscape and thermochemistry of DNA dinucleotide anions via helium nanodroplet infrared action spectroscopy

DA Thomas, R Chang, E Mucha, M Lettow… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Isolation of biomolecules in vacuum facilitates characterization of the intramolecular
interactions that determine three-dimensional structure, but experimental quantification of …

Comprehensive benchmark results for the accuracy of basis sets for anharmonic molecular vibrations

H Mitra, TK Roy - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2020 - ACS Publications
The accuracy and convergence of a series of commonly used split-valence electronic basis
sets are systematically investigated for the anharmonic molecular vibrational spectroscopic …

Investigations on isolated peptides by combined IR/UV spectroscopy in a molecular beam–structure, aggregation, solvation and molecular recognition

K Schwing, M Gerhards - International Reviews in Physical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The well-known correlation between structure and functionality has motivated generations of
scientists to intensively investigate the structural behaviour of peptide and protein systems …

Linear-scaling generation of potential energy surfaces using a double incremental expansion

C König, O Christiansen - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We present a combination of the incremental expansion of potential energy surfaces (PESs),
known as n-mode expansion, with the incremental evaluation of the electronic energy in a …

Harmonic and anharmonic vibrational computations for biomolecular building blocks: Benchmarking DFT and basis sets by theoretical and experimental IR spectrum …

R Xu, Z Jiang, Q Yang, J Bloino… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced vibrational spectroscopic experiments have reached a level of sophistication that
can only be matched by numerical simulations in order to provide an unequivocal analysis …

Structural and vibrational properties of amino acids from composite schemes and double-hybrid DFT: Hydrogen bonding in serine as a test case

M Sheng, F Silvestrini, M Biczysko… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The structures, relative stabilities, and vibrational wavenumbers of the two most stable
conformers of serine, stabilized by the O–H··· N, O–H··· O═ C and N–H··· O–H intramolecular …

Going clean: structure and dynamics of peptides in the gas phase and paths to solvation

C Baldauf, M Rossi - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The gas phase is an artificial environment for biomolecules that has gained much attention
both experimentally and theoretically due to its unique characteristic of providing a clean …