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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 112, Issue 25, Pages 7601-7613Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp7103215
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We study the hydrogen tunneling problem in a model system that represents the active site of the biological enzyme, soybean lipoxygenase-1. Toward this, we utilize quantum wavepacket dynamics performed on potential surfaces obtained by using hybrid density functional theory under the influence of a dynamical active site. The kinetic isotope effect is computed by using the transmission amplitude of the wavepacket, and the experimental value is reproduced. By computing the hydrogen nuclear orbitals (eigenstates) along the reaction coordinate, we note that tunneling for both hydrogen and deuterium occurs through the existence of distorted, spherical s-type proton wave functions and p-type polarized proton wave functions for transfer along the donor-acceptor axis. In addition, there is also a significant population transfer through distorted p-type proton wave functions directed perpendicular to the donor-acceptor axis (via intervening pi-type proton eigenstate interactions) which underlines the three-dimensional nature of the tunneling process. The quantum dynamical evolution indicates a significant contribution from tunneling processes both along the donor-acceptor axis and along directions perpendicular to the donor-acceptor axis. Furthermore, the tunneling process is facilitated by the occurrence of curve crossings and avoided crossings along the proton eigenstate adiabats.
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