title: Comprehensive chiroptical study of proline-containing diamide compounds.
abstract: The continuously growing interest in the understanding of peptide folding led to the conformational investigation of methylamides of N-acetyl-amino acids as diamide models. Here we report the results of detailed conformational analysis on Ac-Pro-NHMe and Ac-β-HPro-NHMe diamides. These compounds were analyzed by experimental and computational methods, the conformational distributions obtained by Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations for isolated and solvated diamide compounds are discussed. The conformational preference of proline-containing diamide compounds as a function of the ambience was observed by a number of chiroptical spectroscopic techniques, such as vibrational circular dichroism (VCD), electronic circular dichroism (ECD), Raman optical activity (ROA) spectroscopy, and additionally by single crystal X-ray diffraction analyses. Based on a comparison between Ac-Pro-NHMe and Ac-β-HPro-NHMe, one can conclude that due to the greater conformational freedom of the β-HPro derivative, Ac-β-HPro-NHMe shows different behavior in solid- and solution-phase, as well. Ac-β-HPro-NHMe tends to form cis Ac-β-HPro amide conformation in water, dichloromethane, and acetonitrile in contrast to its α-Pro analog. On the other hand, the crystal structure of the β-HPro compound cannot be related to any of the conformers obtained in vacuum and solution while the X-ray structure of Ac-Pro-NHMe was identified as tα(L)-, which is a trans Ac-Pro amide containing conformer also predominant in polar solvents.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Chiroptical Structure Analysis, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Krisztina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Knapp
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Górecki
authors.forename: Jadwiga
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frelek
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Luboradzki
authors.forename: Miklós
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hollósi
authors.forename: Zsuzsa
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Majer
authors.forename: Elemér
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vass
mesh_terms: D002942:Circular Dichroism; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D003958:Diamide / Q000737:chemistry*; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D057786:Peptidomimetics / Q000737:chemistry; D011392:Proline / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000737:chemistry*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman
chemical_list: C000597576:Ac-Pro-NHMe; D057786:Peptidomimetics; D003958:Diamide; D011392:Proline
keywords: ECD; IR; ROA; Raman optical activity; VCD; conformational analysis; electronic circular dichroism; infrared spectroscopy; vibrational circular dichroism