Probing the local structure and dynamics of nucleotides using vibrationally enhanced alkynyl stretching

Autor: Tiantian Dong, Pengyun Yu, Juan Zhao, Jianping Wang
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP. 24(48)
ISSN: 1463-9084
Popis: Monitoring the site-specific local structure and dynamics of polynucleotides and DNA is important for understanding their biological functions. However, structurally characterizing these biomolecules with high time resolution has been known to be experimentally challenging. In this work, several 5-silylethynyl-2'-deoxynucleosides and 5-substituted phenylethynyl-2'-deoxynucleosides on the basis of deoxycytidine (dC) and deoxythymidine (dT) were synthesized, in which the alkynyl group shows intensified CC stretching vibration with infrared transition dipole moment magnitude close to that of typical CO stretching, and exhibits structural sensitivities in both vibrational frequency and spectral width. In particular, 5-trimethylsilylethynyl-2'-dC (
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