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Stability of the Guanine Endoperoxide Intermediate: A Computational Challenge for Density Functional Theory

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The addition of singlet molecular oxygen 1O2 onto guanine is a most important and deleterious reaction in biological damage. We assess the efficiency of density functional theory for evaluating the respective stabilities of two intermediates that can form upon 1O2 addition: a charge-separated adduct with a peroxide anion at the C8 position of guanine, and the corresponding cyclic endoperoxide across the 4,8-bond, of the imidazole ring. The reference post Hartree–Fock SCS-MP3/aug-cc-pVTZ//MP2/DZP++ level of theory provides an unambiguous assignment in favor of the endoperoxide intermediate, based on implicitly solvated structures, by −8.0 kcal·mol–1. This value is taken as the reference for a systematic and extended benchmarck performed on 58 exchange--correlation functionals. While B3LYP remains commonly used for studying oxidative DNA lesions, we prove that the stability of the peroxide anion is overestimated by this functional, but also by other commonly used exchange-correlation functionals. The significant error (ca. +3 kcal·mol–1 over a representative set of 58 functionals) arises from overdelocalization but also from the description of the dynamic correlation by the density functional. The significantly improved performance of several recently proposed functionals, including range-separated hybrids such as LC-BLYP, is outlined. We believe that our results will be of great help to further studies on the versatile chemistry of singlet oxygen-induced DNA damage, where complex reaction mechanisms are required to be depicted at a quantum level.
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hal-01114788 , version 1 (10-02-2015)

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Raymond Grüber, Antonio Monari, Elise Dumont. Stability of the Guanine Endoperoxide Intermediate: A Computational Challenge for Density Functional Theory. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014, 118 (49), pp.11612-11619. ⟨10.1021/jp508330r⟩. ⟨hal-01114788⟩
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