Melting of Hydrogen Bonds in Uracil Derivatives Probed by Infrared Spectroscopy and ab Initio Molecular Dynamics
Journal article, 2012

The thermal response of hydrogen bonds is a crucial aspect in the self-assembly of molecular nanostructures. To gain a detailed understanding of their response, we investigated infrared spectra of monomers and hydrogen-bonded dimers of two uracil-derivative molecules, supported by density functional theory calculations. Matrix isolation spectra of monomers, temperature dependence in the solid state, and ab initio molecular dynamics calculations give a comprehensive picture about the dimer structure and dynamics of such systems as well as a proper assignment of hydrogen-bond affected bands. The evolution of the hydrogen bond melting is followed by calculating the C=O center dot center dot center dot H-N distance distributions at different temperatures. The result this calculation yields excellent agreement with the H-bond melting temperature observed by experiment.

peptides

matrix-isolation

solid-liquid interface

tautomerism

building-blocks

modules

surfaces

cytosine

time-correlation functions

energies

Author

Z. Szekrenyes

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

K. Kamaras

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

G. Tarczay

Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

A. Llanes-Pallas

University of Trieste

T. Marangoni

University of Trieste

M. Prato

University of Trieste

D. Bonifazi

University of Trieste

University of Namur

J. Bjork

Linköping University

University of Liverpool

F. Hanke

University of Liverpool

Mats Persson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Materials and Surface Theory

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

1520-6106 (ISSN) 1520-5207 (eISSN)

Vol. 116 15 4626-4633

Subject Categories

Physical Sciences

Chemical Sciences

DOI

10.1021/jp212115h

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