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Characterization of D-glucaric acid using NMR, X-ray crystal structure, and MM3 molecular modeling analyses
Travis T Denton1, Kenneth I Hardcastle, Michael K Dowd
1Shafizadeh Rocky Mountain Center for Wood and Carbohydrate Chemistry, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. travis.denton@mail.ewu.edu
Abstract:
D-Glucaric acid was characterized in solution by comparing NMR spectra from the isotopically unlabeled molecule with those from D-glucaric acid labeled with deuterium or carbon-13 atoms. The NMR studies provided unequivocal assignments for all carbon atoms and non-hydroxyl protons of the molecule. The crystal structure of D-glucaric acid was obtained by X-ray diffraction techniques and the structure was a close match to the low energy conformation generated from a Monte-Carlo-based searching protocol employing the MM3 molecular mechanics program. The molecule adopts a bent structure in both the crystalline and computationally generated lowest-energy structure, a conformation that is devoid of destabilizing eclipsed 1,3-hydroxyl interactions.
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