title: A comparative study of the hydrogen-bonding patterns and prototropism in solid 2-thiocytosine (potential antileukemic agent) and cytosine, as studied by 1H-14N NQDR and QTAIM/ DFT.
abstract: A potential antileukemic and anticancer agent, 2-thiocytosine (2-TC), has been studied experimentally in the solid state by (1)H-(14)N NMR-NQR double resonance (NQDR) and theoretically by the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM)/density functional theory (DFT). Eighteen resonance frequencies on (14)N were detected at 180 K and assigned to particular nitrogen sites (-NH(2), -N=, and -NH-) in 2-thiocytosine. Factors such as the nonequivalence of molecules (connected to the duplication of sites) and possible prototropic tautomerism (capable of modifying the type of site due to proton transfer) were taken into account during frequency assignment. The result of replacing oxygen with sulfur, which leads to changes in the intermolecular interaction pattern and molecular aggregation, is discussed. This study demonstrates the advantages of combining NQDR and DFT to extract detailed information on the H-bonding properties of crystals with complex H-bonding networks. Solid-state properties were found to have a profound impact on the stabilities and reactivities of both compounds.
authors: Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Jolanta.Latosinska@amu.edu.pl
authors: Jolanta N
authors: JN
authors: Latosińska
authors: Janez
authors: J
authors: Seliger
authors: Veselko
authors: V
authors: Zagar
authors: Dorota V
authors: DV
authors: Burchardt
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003596:Cytosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular / Q000379:methods; D011789:Quantum Theory
chemical_list: C058511:2-thiocytosine; D006859:Hydrogen; D003596:Cytosine; D009584:Nitrogen