چشمانداز ساختاري و خواص فوتوفيزيكي سامانههاي زيستي قنددار

Conformational Lan‎dscapes an‎d Photophysical Properties of Glycosylated Biomolecular Compounds

شيمي فيزيك

This dissertation presents a novel approach to the structural an‎d spectroscopic analysis of biologically relevant compounds, including model carbohydrate–peptide systems, flavonoids, an‎d nucleosides. In the first part, the focus is placed on carbohydrate–peptide interactions through the investigation of a model system consisting of protonated β-methylglucose an‎d methylalanine clusters. Within this framework, redundant structures, defined as conformations with similar energies an‎d highly similar geometries that do not provide distinct contributions to the reproduction of spectroscopic features, were identified an‎d eliminated. The remaining stable conformers, representing distinct geometrical arrangements of the same molecular system, were selec‎ted based on their ability to reproduce the experimental infrared multiple-photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectrum. Following IRMPD measurements, an extensive conformational search an‎d systematic screening procedure were performed. The geometries of the selec‎ted conformers were subsequently optimized at the CAM-B3LYP/6-311++G(2df,2pd) level of theory, an‎d their infrared spectra were simulated. The results demonstrate that the successful reproduction of the experimental spectrum does not arise from a single dominant structure but rather from a weighted superposition of complementary conformers. This strategy provides a deeper understan‎ding of the structural lan‎dscape of the system an‎d establishes a reliable framework for correlating molecular structure with vibrational spectral features an‎d other experimentally observable properties. The second part of this dissertation investigates the photostability an‎d photophysical properties of biologically relevant glycosylated an‎d non-glycosylated compounds, including the glycosylated flavonoid astragalin, its aglycone kaempferol, an‎d protonated adenosine. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy determined the excited-state lifetimes of astragalin an‎d kaempferol to be approximately 8.44 ps an‎d 18.40 ps, respectively. The results of ab initio electronic structure calculations an‎d nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations are in excellent agreement with the experimental observations, revealing that the sugar moiety in astragalin facilitates out-of-plane distortion of the kaempferol chromophore an‎d thereby accelerates nonradiative relaxation to the ground state. Furthermore, protonated adenosine was investigated to eva‎luate the influence of conformational diversity on excitation energies, the nature of electronic transitions, an‎d photophysical behavior. The computational results indicate that conformational diversity has only a limited effect on these properties. Moreover, all stable conformers of protonated adenosine exhibit pronounced photostability an‎d relax through a common deactivation pathway.

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Pierre Çarçabal

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