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Cyanamide as an Infrared Reporter: Comparison of Vibrational Properties between Nitriles Bonded to N and C Atoms

Authors
Lee, GiseongKossowska, DorotaLim, JoonhyungKim, SoobinHan, HogyuKwak, KyungwonCho, Minhaeng
Issue Date
12-Apr-2018
Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Citation
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, v.122, no.14, pp 4035 - 4044
Pages
10
Indexed
SCI
SCIE
SCOPUS
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume
122
Number
14
Start Page
4035
End Page
4044
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/76145
DOI
10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b00887
ISSN
1520-6106
1520-5207
Abstract
Infrared (IR) probes based on terminally blocked beta-cyanamidoalanine (AlaNHCN) 1 and p-cyanamidophenylalanine (PheNHCN) 2 were synthesized, and the vibrational properties of their CN stretch modes were studied using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and femtosecond IR pump-probe spectroscopies in combination with quantum chemical calculations. From FTIR studies, it is found that the transition dipole strengths of the cyanamide (NHCN) group in 1 and 2 are much larger than those of the nitrile (CN) group but comparable to those of the isonitrile (NC) and azido (N-3) groups in their previously studied analogs. The CN stretch frequencies in 1 and 2 are red-shifted from those in their nitrile analogs but more blue-shifted from the NC and N-3 stretch frequencies in their isonitrile and azido analogs. The much larger transition dipole strength and the red-shifted frequency of the cyanamide relative to nitrile group originates from the n -> pi* interaction between the N atom's nonbonding (n) and CN group's antibonding (pi*) orbitals of the NHCN group. Unlike aliphatic cyanamide 1, aromatic cyanamide 2 shows a complicated line shape of the CN stretch spectra. Such a complicated line shape arises from the Fermi resonance between the CN stretch mode of the NHCN group and one of the overtones of the phenyl ring vibrations and can be substantially simplified by deuteration of the NHCN into NDCN group. From IR pump-probe experiments, the vibrational lifetimes of the CN stretch mode in 1 were determined to be 0.58 +/- 0.04 ps in D2O and 0.89 +/- 0.09 ps in H2O and those in 2 were determined to be 1.64 +/- 0.13 ps in CH3OD/dimethyl sulfoxide and 0.30 +/- 0.05 and 2.62 +/- 0.26 ps in CH3OH. The short time component (0.30 +/- 0.05 ps) observed for 2 in CH3OH is attributed to the vibrational relaxation through Fermi resonance. These vibrational lifetimes are dose to those of the nitrile and azido groups but shorter than those of the isonitrile group. Consequently, cyanamide behaves like an apparent vibrational hybrid of nitrile and isonitrile in that cyanamide is similar to nitrile in vibrational frequency and lifetime but to isonitrile in transition dipole strength. It is believed that cyanamide has the potential to be a strongly absorbing IR reporter of the conformational and environmental structure and dynamics of biomolecules in comparison to nitrile, a weak absorber.
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