A high-pressure mass spectrometric and density functional theory investigation of the thermochemical properties and structure of protonated dimers and trimers of glycine

J Mass Spectrom. 2005 Dec;40(12):1536-45. doi: 10.1002/jms.908.

Abstract

A new modification of pulsed-ionization high-pressure mass spectrometry (PHPMS) has been used to perform equilibrium thermochemical studies for relatively nonvolatile biomolecules such as amino acids. Binding enthalpy and entropy changes have been measured for proton-bound clusters of glycine, which are in good agreement with both theoretical (DFT) results of this work and a previous blackbody infrared dissociation experiment. Experimental data indicate that a number of conformers of the proton-bound dimer of glycine may coexist in the explored temperature range (360-460 K). Several new, conceptually different isomers (two of them zwitterionic) have been found by DFT calculations, one of which is 7 kJ mol(-1) lower in energy than the structure previously reported to be the energy minimum.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Glycylglycine / chemistry*
  • Ions
  • Mass Spectrometry / methods*
  • Oligopeptides / chemistry*
  • Pressure
  • Protons
  • Thermodynamics
  • Volatilization

Substances

  • Ions
  • Oligopeptides
  • Protons
  • Glycylglycine
  • glycyl-glycyl-glycine