Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 116, Issue 33, Pages 8455-8463Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp305737e
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- French national ANR program T-KiNet
- Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in the framework of the program Convergence
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The description of interactions between biochemical species and the elucidation of the corresponding chemical mechanisms encounter an increasing interest both for the comprehension of biological pathways at the molecular scale and for the rationalization of drug design. Relying on powerful experimental tools such as thermal microfluidics and fluorescence detection, we propose a methodology to determine the chemical mechanism of a reaction without fitting parameters. A mechanism consistent with the accessible knowledge is assumed, and the assumption is checked through an iterative protocol. The test is based on the frequency analysis of the response of a targeted reactive species to temperature modulation. We build specific functions of the frequency that are constant for the assumed mechanism and show that the graph of these functions can be drawn from appropriate data analysis. The method is general and can be applied to any complex mechanism. It is here, illustrated in detail in the case of single relaxation time mechanisms.
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