Molecular Recognition in Glycolaldehyde, the Simplest Sugar: Two Isolated Hydrogen Bonds Win Over One Cooperative Pair

2012 | Zeitschriftenartikel. Eine Publikation mit Affiliation zur Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

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​Altnoeder, Jonas, Juhyon J. Lee, Katharina E. Otto, and Martin A. Suhm. "Molecular Recognition in Glycolaldehyde, the Simplest Sugar: Two Isolated Hydrogen Bonds Win Over One Cooperative Pair​." ​ChemistryOpen ​1, no. 6 (2012): ​269​-275​. ​https://doi.org/10.1002/open.201200031.

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Altnoeder, Jonas; Lee, Juhyon J.; Otto, Katharina E.; Suhm, Martin A. 
Zusammenfassung
Carbohydrates are used in nature as molecular recognition tools. Understanding their conformational behavior upon aggregation helps in rationalizing the way in which cells and bacteria use sugars to communicate. Here, the simplest a-hydroxy carbonyl compound, glycolaldehyde, was used as a model system. It was shown to form compact polar C-2-symmetric dimers with intermolecular O-H center dot center dot center dot O=C bonds, while sacrificing the corresponding intramolecular hydrogen bonds. Supersonic jet infrared (IR) and Raman spectra combined with high-level quantum chemical calculations provide a consistent picture for the preference over more typical hydrogen bond insertion and addition patterns. Experimental evidence for at least one metastable dimer is presented. A rotational spectroscopy investigation of these dimers is encouraged, also in view of astrophysical searches. The binding motif competition of aldehydic sugars might play a role in chirality recognition phenomena of more complex derivatives in the gas phase.
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
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published
Herausgeber
Wiley-v C H Verlag Gmbh
Zeitschrift
ChemistryOpen 
Organisation
Institut für Physikalische Chemie 
ISSN
2191-1363
Förderer
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2012

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