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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Physical Chemistry A Année : 2006

Ab-initio molecular dynamics of protonated dialanine and comparison to infrared multiphoton dissociation experiments

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Finite temperature Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics simulations are performed for the protonated dialanine peptide in vacuo, in relation to infrared multiphoton dissociation experiments. The simulations emphasize the flexibility of the different torsional angles at room temperature and the dynamical exchange between different conformers which were previously identified as stable at 0 K. A proton transfer occurring spontaneously at the N-terminal side is also observed and characterized. The theoretical infrared absorption spectrum is computed from the dipole time correlation function, and, in contrast to traditional static electronic structure calculations, it accounts directly for anharmonic and finite temperature effects. The comparison to the experimental infrared multiphoton dissociation spectrum turns out very good in terms of both band positions and band shapes. It does help the identification of a predominant conformer and the attribution of the different bands. The synergy shown between the experimental and theoretical approaches opens the door to the study of the vibrational properties of complex and floppy biomolecules in the gas phase at finite temperature.

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hal-00157663 , version 1 (26-06-2007)

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C. Marinica, G. Grégoire, C. Desfrançois, D. Borgis, M.-P. Gaigeot, et al.. Ab-initio molecular dynamics of protonated dialanine and comparison to infrared multiphoton dissociation experiments. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2006, 110 (28), pp.8802-8810. ⟨10.1021/jp062114o⟩. ⟨hal-00157663⟩
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