• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.1985-1992
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• 2011

The stable conformers of glycine and the inter-conversions between them were studied theoretically at various levels of theory, B3LYP, MP2, CCSD and CCSD(T), in the gas phase and in aqueous solution. In aqueous solution, the structures examined by use of the conductor-like polarizable continuum model (CPCM) with various cavity models, UA0, UAHF, UAKS, UFF, BONDI and PAULING, and by use of a discrete/continuum solvation model with eight water clusters. The Gibbs free energy differences between the neutral (NE) and zwitterionic conformers (ZW), ${\Delta}G_{Z-N}[=G_{ZW}-G_{NE}]$, in aqueous solution were well reproduced by using the BONDI and PAULING cavity models. However the ${\Delta}G_{Z-N}$ values were underestimated in other cavity models, although the ZW conformers existed as stable species in aqueous solution. In the studies of a discrete/continuum solvation model with eight water clusters, gas phase results are still insufficient to reproduce the experimental findings. However the ${\Delta}G_{Z-N}$ values calculated by use of CPCM method in aqueous solution agreed well with the experimental ones.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.1561-1565
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• 2012

The structures of the four lowest alanine conformers, along with their radical cations and the effect of ionization on the intramolecular proton transfer process, are studied using the density functional theory and MP2 method. The energy order of the radical cations of alanine differs from that of the corresponding neutral conformers due to changes in the basicity of the $NH_2$ group upon ionization. Ionization favors the intramolecular proton transfer process, leading to a proton-transferred radical-cation structure, [$NH_3{^+}-CHCH_3-COO{\bullet}$], which contrasts with the fact that a proton-transferred zwitterionic conformer is not stable for a neutral alanine in the gas phase. The energy barrier during the proton transfer process is calculated to be about 6 kcal/mol.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.257-265
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• 2009

$Cu^{+}$ 및 $Cu^{2+}$와 proline의 결합형태에 따른 구조 및 금속 친화도를 DFT(Density Functional Theory) 방법으로 조사하였다. 금속-proline의 결합과 여러 결합형태에 따른 에너지 순서는 $Cu^{+}$-Proline및 $Cu^{2+}$-proline 착화합물에서 서로 매우 상이함을 알았다. $Cu^{+}$-Proline의 경우, 바닥상태의 구조는 $Cu^{+}$가 중성 proline의 카르보닐 산소 및 이미노기 질소에 배위된 두 자리 배위를 하며, 이에 비해 $Cu^{2+}$-Proline 의 바닥상태의 구조는 zwitter이온 형태 proline의 카르복시기의 두 산소 사이에 chelation을 형성하는 구조임을 확인하였다. 가장 안정한 $Cu^{+}$-Proline 착화합물에서 proline의 금속 이온 친화도는 6-311++G(d,p) 수준에서 76.0 kcal/mol로 계산되었으며, proline의 $Cu^{2+}$ 이온 친화도는 258.5 kcal/mol로 나타났다.