The ab initio assigning of the vibrational probing modes of tryptophan: linear shifting of approximate anharmonic frequencies vs. multiplicative scaling of harmonic frequencies.
To gain insight into the prospects for a few-dimensional ab initio quantum-mechanical description of the vibrational motions of conformationally flexible molecular systems, the NH-, NH(2)-, CO- and OH-stretching and COH-bending vibrations of the most stable tryptophan conformations have been probed using simple one- and two-dimensional anharmonic Hamiltonians and potential energy functions evaluated by means of the standard RI-MP2, CCSD(T) and DFT-D quantum chemical procedures. Although strongly dependent on the procedure used, the calculated vibrational spectral patterns have been found to be in a robust one-to-one harmony with their experimental counterparts, thus proving the adequacy of the theory used for the reliable assignment of the experimental data. Therefore, the approach appears to be a suitable tool for assigning the vibrational probing modes even of systems which are too large to be tractable by the standard normal-coordinate analysis.
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, v.v.i, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo, Prague 6, Czech Republic.
Martin
M
Kabelác
Pavel
P
Hobza
Vladimír
V
Spirko
D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011789:Quantum Theory; D014364:Tryptophan / Q000737:chemistry*; D014732:Vibration
D014364:Tryptophan