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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
30
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-7-26
pubmed:abstractText
The role of stereoelectronic, environmental, and short-time dynamic effects in tuning the hyperfine and gyromagnetic tensors of a prototypical nitroxide spin probe has been investigated by an integrated computational approach based on extended Lagrangian molecular dynamics and discrete-continuum solvent models. Trajectories were generated in two protic solvents as well as in the gas phase for reference; structural analysis of the dynamics, and comparison with optimized solute-solvent clusters, allowed for the identification of the prevailing solute-solvent hydrogen-bonding patterns and helped to define the strategy for the computation of magnetic parameters. This was performed in a separate step, on a large number of frames, by a high-level DFT approach coupling the PBE0 hybrid functional with a tailored basis set and with proper account of specific and bulk solvent effects. Remarkable changes in solvation networks are found on going from aqueous to methanol solution, thus providing a rationalization of indirect experimentally available evidence. The computed magnetic parameters are in satisfactory agreement with the available measured values and allow for an unbiased evaluation of the role of different effects in tuning the overall EPR observables. Apart from their intrinsic interest, our results pave the route toward the development of tunable detection protocols based on specific spectroscopic signatures.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1520-6106
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
2
pubmed:volume
111
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8928-39
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Interplay of intrinsic, environmental, and dynamic effects in tuning the EPR parameters of nitroxides: further insights from an integrated computational approach.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento di Chimica and INSTM, Università di Napoli Federico II Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article