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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 118, Issue 9, Pages 1748-1758Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp5007632
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- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2012/03933-5, 2012/18567-4]
- Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPQ)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [12/03933-5, 12/18567-4] Funding Source: FAPESP
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This work reports a detailed study regarding the conformational preferences of L-proline methyl ester (ProOMe) and its N-acetylated derivative (AcProOMe) to elucidate the effects that rule their behaviors, through nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and infrared (IR) spectroscopies combined with 00113 theoretical calculations. These compounds do not present a zwitterionic form in solution, simulating properly amino acid residues in biological media, in a way closer than amino acids in the gas phase. Experimental (3)J(HH) coupling constants and infrared data showed excellent agreement with theoretical calculations, indicating no variations in conformer populations on changing solvents. Natural bond orbital (NBO) results showed that hyperconjugative interactions are responsible for the higher stability of the most populated conformer of ProOMe, whereas for AcProOMe both hyperconjugative and steric effects rule its conformational equilibrium.
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