Enhanced basicity of push–pull nitrogen bases in the gas phase

ED Raczyńska, JF Gal, PC Maria - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen bases containing one or more pushing amino-group (s) directly linked to a pulling
cyano, imino, or phosphoimino group, as well as those in which the pushing and pulling …

Gas phase basicities of polyfunctional molecules. Part 3: Amino acids

G Bouchoux - Mass spectrometry reviews, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The present article is the third part of a general overview of the gas‐phase protonation
thermochemistry of polyfunctional molecules (first part: Mass Spectrom. Rev., 2007, 26: 775 …

Revising the proton affinity scale of the naturally occurring α-amino acids

C Bleiholder, S Suhai, B Paizs - Journal of the American Society for Mass …, 2006 - Springer
The proton affinities (PA) of the 20 naturally occurring α-amino acids (AA) have been
determined computationally by means of density functional theory (DFT) and high-level G2 …

Gas-phase acidities of the 20 protein amino acids

CM Jones, M Bernier, E Carson, KE Colyer… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
The gas-phase acidities of the 20 protein amino acids (PAAs) have been determined using
an electrospray ionization–quadrupole ion trap instrument. Three different methods were …

De novo sequencing of neuropeptides using reductive isotopic methylation and investigation of ESI QTOF MS/MS fragmentation pattern of neuropeptides with N …

Q Fu, L Li - Analytical chemistry, 2005 - ACS Publications
A stable-isotope dimethyl labeling strategy was previously shown to be a useful tool for
quantitative proteomics. More recently, N-terminal dimethyl labeling was also reported for …

A reevaluation of computed proton affinities for the common α-amino acids

S Gronert, DC Simpson, KM Conner - Journal of the American Society for …, 2009 - Springer
The proton affinities of the 20 common amino acids have been computed at the G3MP2 level
using structures derived from broad conformational searches at a variety of levels including …

Structural and energetic effects in the molecular recognition of amino acids by 18-crown-6

Y Chen, MT Rodgers - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012 - ACS Publications
Absolute 18-crown-6 (18C6) affinities of five amino acids (AAs) are determined using guided
ion beam tandem mass spectrometry techniques. The AAs examined in this work include …

Alkali metal ion binding to glutamine and glutamine derivatives investigated by infrared action spectroscopy and theory

MF Bush, J Oomens, RJ Saykally… - The Journal of Physical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The gas-phase structures of alkali-metal cationized glutamine are investigated by using both
infrared multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD) action spectroscopy, utilizing light generated …

Benchmark ab initio proton affinity of glycine

AB Nacsa, G Czakó - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A systematic conformational search reveals three N-(amino) and eight O-(carbonyl)
protonated glycine conformers with benchmark equilibrium (adiabatic) relative energies in …

Structures of lithiated lysine and structural analogues in the gas phase: effects of water and proton affinity on zwitterionic stability

AS Lemoff, MF Bush, JT O'Brie… - The Journal of Physical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
The structures of lithiated lysine, ornithine, and related molecules, both with and without a
water molecule, are investigated using both density functional theory and blackbody infrared …