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Molecular Rearrangement of an Aza-Scorpiand Macrocycle Induced by pH. A Computational Study
Published:
07 December 2015
by MDPI
in MOL2NET'15, Conference on Molecular, Biomed., Comput. & Network Science and Engineering, 1st ed.
congress CHEMBIO.INFO-01: Cheminfo., Chemom., Comput. Quantum Chem. & Bioinfo. Congress, Cambridge, UK-Chapel Hill and Richmond, USA, 2015
Abstract:
Rearrangements and their control are a hot topic in supramolecular chemistry due to the possibilities that these phenomena open in the design of synthetic receptors and molecular machines. Macrocycle aza-scorpiands constitute an interesting system that can reorganize their spatial structure depending on pH variations or the presence of metal cations. In our case, the conformations change varies between the so called ‘open’ and ‘closed’, the last being found at lower pH. In this study, the relative stabilities of these conformations were predicted computationally by the Density Functional Theory approximation and the reorganization from closed to open was simulated by using the Monte Carlo Multiple Minimum method.
Keywords: pH controlled, supramolecular chemistry, synthetic receptors, aza-scorpiands, Density Functional Theory, Monte Carlo Multiple Minimum