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JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 148-159Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jrs.2426
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cyclic di-amino acid peptides; X-ray structure; X-ray crystallography; ab initio calculations; vibrational spectra
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- EPSRC [GR/L85176]
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Experimental Raman and FT-IR spectra of solid-state non-deuterated and N-deuterated samples of cyclo(L-Met-L-Met) are reported and discussed. The Raman and FT-IR results show characteristic amide I vibrations (Raman: 1649 cm(-1), infrared: 1675 cm(-1)) for molecules exhibiting a cis amide conformation. A Raman band, assigned to the cis amide 11 vibrational mode, is observed at similar to 1493 cm(-1) but no IR band is observed in this region. Cyclo(L-Met-L-Met) crystallises in the triclinic space group P1 with one molecule per unit cell. The overall shape of the diketopiperazine (DKP) ring displays a (slightly distorted) boat conformation. The crystal packing employs two strong hydrogen bonds, which traverse the entire crystal via translational repeats. B3-LYP/cc-pVDZ calculations of the structure of the molecule predict a boat conformation for the DKP ring, in agreement with the experimentally determined X-ray structure. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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