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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 17, 期 43, 页码 29262-29270出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04668h
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- NIH [NS 34407]
Cation-pi interactions are common in biological systems, and many structural studies have revealed the aromatic box as a common motif. With the aim of understanding the nature of the aromatic box, several computational methods were evaluated for their ability to reproduce experimental cation-pi binding energies. We find the DFT method M06 with the 6-31G(d, p) basis set performs best of several methods tested. The binding of benzene to a number of different cations (sodium, potassium, ammonium, tetramethylammonium, and guanidinium) was studied. In addition, the binding of the organic cations NH4+ and NMe4+ to ab initio generated aromatic boxes as well as examples of aromatic boxes from protein crystal structures were investigated. These data, along with a study of the distance dependence of the cation-p interaction, indicate that multiple aromatic residues can meaningfully contribute to cation binding, even with displacements of more than an angstrom from the optimal cation-pi interaction. Progressive fluorination of benzene and indole was studied as well, and binding energies obtained were used to reaffirm the validity of the fluorination strategy'' to study cation-pi interactions in vivo.
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