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Interferencia entre los enlaces de hidrógeno de los dos anillos de nicotina
Jérôme Graton1, Tanja van Mourik, Sarah L Price
1Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|May 8, 2003
Resumen
La nicotina es la nicotina.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
- Química computacional es la química computacional.
- Modelado Molecular El Modelado Molecular.
Sus antecedentes:
- El transporte y la unión bioquímicos de la nicotina dependen de los enlaces de hidrógeno.
- Existen dos sitios de enlace de hidrógeno distintos: el anillo de piridina y el anillo de pirrolidinio protonado.
- La independencia de estos sitios en las interacciones de la nicotina no se entiende completamente.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar la independencia de los sitios de enlace de hidrógeno en la nicotina protonada.
- Para modelar las interacciones de la nicotina con el agua, el bicarbonato, el benceno y el indole.
- Evaluar el impacto de estas interacciones en la estructura y la unión de la nicotina.
Principales métodos:
- Estructuras calculadas de grupos de nicotina con varias moléculas (agua, bicarbonato, benceno, indol).
- Exploró las superficies de energía potencial utilizando un modelo de potencial intermolecular anisotrópico atomo-atomo.
- Realizó optimizaciones completas de geometría utilizando la teoría funcional de densidad (DFT) para incluir efectos no aditivos.
Principales resultados:
- La protonación del nitrógeno pirrolidino de la nicotina afecta la unión de hidrógeno en el anillo de piridina.
- El anión bicarbonato restaura parcialmente la capacidad de enlace de hidrógeno del anillo de piridina.
- El benceno y el indole interactúan de manera diferente, con el indole restaurando parcialmente la capacidad del nitrógeno de piridina.
- Una segunda molécula de agua induce cambios conformacionales significativos en la nicotina.
Conclusiones:
- La independencia de los sitios de enlace de hidrógeno de la nicotina es limitada, desafiando las predicciones convencionales.
- Las interacciones con aniones y moléculas aromáticas modulan las capacidades de enlace de hidrógeno.
- Los resultados proporcionan puntos de referencia para el modelado atomístico en sistemas bioquímicos.
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