Structure of condensed phase peptides: insights from vibrational circular dichroism and Raman optical activity techniques

TA Keiderling - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Peptides and proteins are naturally chiral molecular systems so that sensing their structure
and conformation with chirality-based spectral methods is an obvious and long-used …

The development of biomolecular Raman optical activity spectroscopy

LD Barron - Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging, 2015 - content.iospress.com
Following its first observation over 40 years ago, Raman optical activity (ROA), which may
be measured as a small difference in the intensity of vibrational Raman scattering from chiral …

[HTML][HTML] Localizing normal modes in large molecules

CR Jacob, M Reiher - The Journal of chemical physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We show how vibrational spectra obtained from quantum chemical calculations can be
analyzed by transforming the calculated normal modes contributing to a certain band in the …

Vibrational optical activity

LD Barron, AD Buckingham - Chemical Physics Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Although optical activity in chiral molecules was discovered almost two centuries ago, it was
not until the early 1970s that optical activity in vibrational spectra was observed. Thanks to …

Raman spectra from ab initio molecular dynamics and its application to liquid S-methyloxirane

S Luber, M Iannuzzi, J Hutter - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We describe the calculation of Raman spectra for periodic systems via ab initio molecular
dynamics (AIMD) utilizing the Gaussian and plane wave method in the program package …

First-principles predictions of vibrational Raman optical activity of globular proteins

J Kessler, J Kapitán, P Bouř - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Computational methods based on the Schrödinger equation have been traditionally
confined to rather small molecules. Using an automatic computational methodology …

Measurement and Theory of Resonance Raman Optical Activity for Gases, Liquids, and Aggregates. What It Tells about Molecules

G Zając, P Bouř - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
Resonance Raman Optical Activity (RROA) appeared as a natural extension of the
nonresonance branch. It combines the structural sensitivity of chiroptical spectroscopy with …

Theoretical Raman optical activity study of the β domain of rat metallothionein

S Luber, M Reiher - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2010 - ACS Publications
We present the calculated vibrational Raman optical activity (ROA) spectrum of the β domain
of rat metallothionein, which is the by far largest molecule for which full ab initio ROA …

MOVIPAC: Vibrational spectroscopy with a robust meta‐program for massively parallel standard and inverse calculations

T Weymuth, MP Haag, K Kiewisch… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We present the software package MoViPac for calculations of vibrational spectra, namely
infrared, Raman, and Raman Optical Activity (ROA) spectra, in a massively parallelized …

Structure and vibrational motion of insulin from Raman optical activity spectra

S Yamamoto, J Kaminský, P Bouř - Analytical chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
The Raman optical activity (ROA) spectroscopic technique has been applied in the past to
many biologically relevant systems including peptides, proteins, sugars, and even viruses …