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Rotational Probes of Six Conformers of Neutral Cysteine
Author(s) -
Sanz M. Eugenia,
Blanco Susana,
López Juan C.,
Alonso José L.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200801337
Subject(s) - conformational isomerism , rotational spectroscopy , vaporization , spectroscopy , fourier transform , ab initio , jet (fluid) , supersonic speed , chemistry , cysteine , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , microwave , materials science , analytical chemistry (journal) , atomic physics , nuclear magnetic resonance , molecular physics , optics , physics , molecule , organic chemistry , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , enzyme
Six of one : Vaporization of solid cysteine by laser ablation followed by the generation of a supersonic jet in a vacuum chamber has enabled six low‐energy conformers of this amino acid to be characterized by using Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy (see picture). The information provided by this technique is directly comparable with that predicted from in vacuo ab initio computations.