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Gas-Phase IR Spectroscopy and Structure of Biological Molecules pp 335–401Cite as

Microwave Spectroscopy of Biomolecular Building Blocks

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Abstract

Microwave spectroscopy, considered as the most definitive gas phase structural probe, is able to distinguish between different conformational structures of a molecule, because they have unique spectroscopic constants and give rise to distinct individual rotational spectra.

Previously, application of this technique was limited to molecular specimens possessing appreciable vapor pressures, thus discarding the possibility of studying many other molecules of biological importance, in particular those with high melting points, which had a tendency to undergo thermal reactions, and ultimately degradation, upon heating.

Nowadays, the combination of laser ablation with Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy techniques, in supersonic jets, has enabled the gas-phase study of such systems. In this chapter, these techniques, including broadband spectroscopy, as well as results of their application into the study of the conformational panorama and structure of biomolecular building blocks, such as amino acids, nucleic bases, and monosaccharides, are briefly discussed, and with them, the tools for conformational assignation – rotational constants, nuclear quadrupole coupling interaction, and dipole moment.

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Notes

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    Investigation of the parent, 15NH2CH2COOH and 15NH2CH213COOH glycine species, partially reported as supplementary material of [100].

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