title: Linkage and pyranosyl ring twisting in cyclodextrins.
abstract: Acylated beta-cyclodextrins (beta-CDs) were studied to gain perspective on maltose octapropanoate, the crystal structure of which was reported in the preceding paper in this issue. Acylated beta-CDs are distorted so we looked at other CDs and gained increased understanding of distortion in CDs and possibly, shapes in starch. Classic CDs have six to eight glucose residues in a doughnut shape that is stabilized by a ring of inter-residue O3,,,O2' hydrogen bonds. On a phi,psi energy map for a maltose analog that does not form hydrogen bonds, classic CD linkages have higher energies than structures that are stabilized by the exo-anomeric effect. In distorted beta-CDs, which lack hydrogen bonding, some linkages attain low-energies from the exo-anomeric effect and acyl stacking. Those linkages result in left-handed helical geometry so other linkages are forced by the CD macrocycle to have counter-balancing right-handed character. Permethylated gamma-CDs have two 'flipping' linkages as do some larger native CDs. Flipping linkages allow two left-handed segments to join into a macrocycle, thus avoiding the higher-energy, right-handed forms. Some glucose rings in derivatized beta-CDs have substantial positive twists of the pseudo torsion angle O1-C1...C4-O4, adding right-handed character to balance the left-handed linkages. In substituted gamma-CD, all residues have negative twists, giving extra left-handed character to the short, pseudo-helical segments. In non-macrocyclic molecules the twists ranged from -14 degrees to +2 degrees , averaging -6.1 degrees. In these beta- and gamma-CDs, the twists ranged from -22 degrees to +16 degrees for (4)C(1) rings, and the (O)S(2) ring in acetylated beta-CD has a twist of +34 degrees . Glucose residues in other CDs were less twisted.
authors: Southern Regional Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124, United States. afrench@srrc.ars.usda.gov
authors: Alfred D
authors: AD
authors: French
authors: Glenn P
authors: GP
authors: Johnson
mesh_terms: D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D003505:Cyclodextrins / Q000737:chemistry*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008958:Models, Molecular; D013816:Thermodynamics; D047392:beta-Cyclodextrins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D003505:Cyclodextrins; D047392:beta-Cyclodextrins