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Single- and Double-Proton-Transfer in the Aggregate between Cytosine and Guaninediazonium Ion
Organic Letters
  • Rainer Glaser, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Michael A. Lewis
Abstract

The structure of "guaninediazonium ion" in its aggregate with cytosine has been explored with ab initio and density functional methods. The hydroqen-bonded aggregate between cytosine and guaninediazonium ion, 1, is a stable minimum, 3. While the isolated enol tautomer of guaninediazonium ion, 2, is significantly more stable than 1, the tautomeric aggregate 4 that results from double-proton-transfer in 3 is almost isoenergetic with 3. Most interesting and entirely unexpected is the finding that neither 3 nor 4 is predicted to be the thermodynamically predominant structure. Instead, single-proton-transfer to cytosine results in the most stable cytosinium-guaninediazo complex, 5.

Department(s)
Chemistry
Keywords and Phrases
  • cytosine,
  • diazonium compound,
  • DNA,
  • drug derivative,
  • guanine,
  • guaninediazonium,
  • proton,
  • chemistry,
  • conformation,
  • hydrogen bond,
  • thermodynamics,
  • Cytosine,
  • Diazonium Compounds,
  • DNA,
  • Guanine,
  • Hydrogen Bonding,
  • Molecular Conformation,
  • Protons,
  • Thermodynamics
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 1999 American Chemical Society (ACS), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
6-1-1999
Publication Date
01 Jun 1999
Disciplines
Citation Information
Rainer Glaser and Michael A. Lewis. "Single- and Double-Proton-Transfer in the Aggregate between Cytosine and Guaninediazonium Ion" Organic Letters Vol. 1 Iss. 2 (1999) p. 273 - 276 ISSN: 1523-7060
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rainer-glaser/114/