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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 12, Issue 23, Pages 5980-5982Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b924029b
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The jet-cooled spontaneous Raman spectrum of an amino acid-alanine (Ala, 2-aminopropanoic acid; H(2)NCH(CH(3))-COOH)-is reported. The low-frequency vibrational spectrum (below 500 cm(-1)) was recorded and assigned using quantum chemical data: ab initio (MP2) and DFT (BLYP, B3LYP, and PBE0). Band polarization measurements were used to confirm the vibrational assignments. The acquired medium resolution spectra (HWHM of similar to 4 cm(-1)) allow the different alanine conformations to be distinguished. Four alanine conformers were observed and identified: two previously reported by microwave spectroscopy studies and two that were previously unreported. A set of reasons for why these conformers eluded previous studies are discussed. Selective collisional relaxation processes in the jet (associated with low interconversion barriers between different alanine conformations) that depopulate the high-energy conformers were experimentally demonstrated.
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