Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2001, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (S1): 159.

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Study of Molecular Recognition on Amino Acid Esters by Chirai SalenCo

LIU Tao1, RUAN Wen-Juan1, LI Ying1, JIANG Dong-Qing1, ZHU Zhi-Ang1, CHEN Yong-Ti1, Albert S. C. Chan2   

  1. 1. College of chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China;
    2. Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The HongKong Polytechnic University, China
  • Received:2001-06-26 Online:2001-12-31 Published:2001-12-31

Abstract:

The molecule recognition of a chirai SalenCo compound towards four pairs of enautiomers of amino acid esters in CH2Cl2 was investigated with UV-vis spectral method. It was found that the SalenCo compound and the amino acid esters could form 1:1 complexes and the associative constants of the molecular recognition reactions were following tbe order KD>KL and K(LeuOMe)> K(AlaOMe)> K(SerOMe)> K(TyrOMe). The ΔrGθmrHθmrSθm values of the recognition processes were determined and the reactions were believed to be exothermic and entropy decreasing. In addition, the conformations with minimal energy of each host-guest molecular system complex were sought by molecular dynamics method. Quantum chemical calculations were performed on these conformations to explain the experimental data, and the model of the recognition mechanism was constructed.

Key words: Chirai SalenCo, Chirai amino acid esters, Molecule recognition, Molecular mechanics

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