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Interfacial Molecular-level Structures of Polymers and Biomacromolecules Revealed via Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy
Published on: August 13, 2019
A comparative study of the low-frequency vibrations of l-histidine molecule in different solid states
1Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, School of Chemistry, Biology and Materials of Science, East China University of Technology, Guanglan Avenue 418, Nanchang City 330013, China.
Abstract:
Low-frequency vibrations of l-histidine in a neat solid state and its monohydrochloride monohydrate are both investigated using THz spectroscopy and DFT calculations. The molecular motions in those modes are further quantitatively decomposed into a number of submotions and discussed in terms of their contributions to a mode. The results show significant differences in the averaged contribution percentage of intermolecular motions and the dihedral angle distortions of the imidazole ring between these two crystals. Those phenomena are interpreted from the viewpoint of their hydrogen-bond configurations.
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