Effect of protonation on the ground state properties of retinal analogs: an ab-initio study

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 892-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Poirier ◽  
Arpita Yadav ◽  
Péter R. Surján

The ground state properties (bond lengths, bond orders, net atomic charge distribution) of various cis and trans isomers of retinal analogs have been studied at abinitio SCF and correlated levels. The effect of protonation on the properties of the retinal Schiff base analogs has also been studied. Convergence in various properties has been observed with increasing chain length justifying the use of smaller analogs mimicking retinal. Convergence is, however, slower for the protonated retinal Schiff base analogs. The protonated retinal Schiff base analogs show an increased conjugation reflected in the bond orders, bond lengths, and in the decrease in the HOMO–LUMO gap. The nodal characteristics of the HOMO of the protonated retinal Schiff base analog also indicate a strong conjugation in the vicinity of the protonated nitrogen. Based on the results of calculations at the correlated level, the sudden polarization charge transfer mechanism is shown to be an artifact of HF-based methods used in the calculations.

1965 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 3026-3038 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Bloor

SCF MOs for azulene have been obtained by the semiempirical Pariser, Parr, Pople procedure using the Nishimoto–Mataga method of calculating repulsion integrals and the assumption that nearest neighbor resonance integrals are independent of interatomic distance. Excited states calculated from these MOs by a CI calculation are in very good agreement with experiment. Ground state charge densities, bond orders, and the dipole moment are similar to other SCFMO calculations and reveal no disadvantage in adopting a constant resonance integral for all bonds. It is shown that estimates of the π-electron charge density by n.m.r. methods are not compatible with direct dipole moment measurements and it is suggested that the interpretation of the n.m.r. measurements suffers from inaccuracies in estimating ring currents. Doubt is also thrown on the use of simple relationships between calculated π-bond orders and bond lengths obtained by X-ray crystallographic measurements on the solid state, particularly since all the bond lengths in azulene are predicted to be longer than in benzene whereas experiment shows some to be shorter. Calculations on spin densities and charge densities of the singly charged azulene anion and cation have been performed by a restricted Hartree–Fock perturbation method in which the matrix elements for the interaction between singly excited states and the ground state are calculated using the closed shell SCFMOs of azulene as the basis set. Agreement with experiment for the anion is fairly good. For the cation our results are in severe disagreement with recent VB calculations, but there are no experimental results available to decide between the two methods.


1990 ◽  
Vol 43 (9) ◽  
pp. 1541 ◽  
Author(s):  
MJ Collins ◽  
S Sternhell ◽  
CW Tansey

The 4J(H-C-C-Me) coupling constants of methyl-substituted derivatives, probes of bond order, have been used to examine the ground-state π- electron distributions in azulene (1), biphenylene (2) and 1,6- methano [10] annulene (3). The experimental data obtained are in good agreement with theoretical predictions for biphenylene (2) and provide some evidence for π-electron disproportionation towards the five-membered ring in azulene (1). The bond orders in 1,6-methano [10] annulene (3) obtained in this work are at variance with those predicted on the grounds of bond lengths.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (15) ◽  
pp. 4539
Author(s):  
Nguyen Minh Thuy ◽  
Vo Minh ◽  
Tran Ben ◽  
My Tuyen Thi Nguyen ◽  
Ho Ha ◽  
...  

Butterfly pea flower have great sensory attraction, but they have not yet been used widely in Vietnam. Extracts of butterfly pea flowers can be used conveniently as a natural blue colorant for food products. In this study, the identification of anthocyanin compounds in butterfly pea flowers was performed by UPLC coupled with a UV and Mass spectrometer instrument. Positive and negative ion electrospray MS/MS chromatograms and spectra of the anthocyanin compounds were determined. By analyzing the chromatograms and spectra for each ion, five anthocyanins were identified in the butterfly pea flower extract; these were delphinidin-3-(6”‐p-coumaroyl)-rutinoside, cyanidin 3-(6”-p-coumaroyl)-rutinoside, delphinidin-3-(p-coumaroyl) glucose in both cis- and trans- isomers, cyanidin-3-(p-coumaroyl-glucoside) and delphinidin-3-pyranoside. Additionally, based on their intensity, it was determined that cyanidin-3-(p-coumaroyl-glucoside) was the most abundant anthocyanin, followed by cyanidin 3-(6”-p-coumaroyl)-rutinoside, delphinidin-3-(p-coumaroyl-glucoside), delphinidin-3-(6”-p-coumaroyl)-rutinoside and delphinidin-3-pyranoside. In this study, cyanidin derivatives were discovered in butterfly pea flower extract, where these compounds had not been detected in previous studies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 153 (24) ◽  
pp. 244308
Author(s):  
Ali Abou Taka ◽  
Mark C. Babin ◽  
Xianghai Sheng ◽  
Jessalyn A. DeVine ◽  
Daniel M. Neumark ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 030301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Chen ◽  
Ke-Zhi Zhang ◽  
Xiao-Liang Wang ◽  
Yong Chen

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