RAMAN-ACTIVE BANDS SENSITIVE TO MOTION AND CONFORMATION AT THE CHAIN TERMINI AND BACKBONES OF ALKANES AND LIPIDS
RAMAN-ACTIVE BANDS SENSITIVE TO MOTION AND CONFORMATION AT THE CHAIN TERMINI AND BACKBONES OF ALKANES AND LIPIDS
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DOI:
10.1021/j100296a066
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发表时间:
1987-06-04
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LADJADJ, M
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作者:
BROWN, KG;BICKNELLBROWN, E;LADJADJ, M
The Raman spectra of long-chain alkanes with methyl groupsat both ends are compared with those having a substituted group at one end of the chain. A Raman-activeband that appears between 890 and 900 cm" 1, and was previously assigned to CH3 rocking coupled with stretching of the terminal CC bond andto acyl C,-C2 stretching in long-chain esters, was examined in detail in order to determine the accuracy of the assignments and the relative contributionsof each band (if both assignments are correct) to the total Raman intensity observed in spectra of long-chain esters at about 895 cm" 1. The assignment of this observed band assumes significance in studies of synthetic and biological polymers because a band at 895 cm" 1 in glycerides has been shown to be sensitive tomolecular state, in particular local motional freedom and conformational randomness. The intensity of the 895-cm" 1 Raman band is shown to consist virtually entirely of chain end CC stretching. Further, it is shown that, for long-chain esters, terminal acyl CC stretching and terminal methyl end CC stretching are superimposed. However, the acyl end CC stretch band contributes much more to the total intensity than does the methyl end CC stretch band. The spectra of the liquid alkanes contain broadened bands at about 875 and 895 cm" 1. The 875-cm" 1 band has been assigned previously to C2C, stretching for disordered chain ends. Comparison of Raman spectra of crystalline dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and crystalline DPPC labeled with 13C at the C, atom of chain 2 confirms the assignment of the band to acyl terminus CC stretching. Further, the 895-cm" 1 Raman band is assigned to the stretching mode for trans CrA rotamers, while the 875-cm" 1 band is assignedto the stretching mode for gauche C2-C, rotamers. Therefore, the relative intensities of the 895-and876-cm" 1 Raman bands may be used to determine the relative populations of trans and gauche rotamers at chain ends. The intensities of CH stretch bands and skeletal CC stretch bands are compared for the liquid alkanes and melted DPPC. With the assumption that the 2885-cm" 1 CH2 antisymmetric stretch peak height for liquids depends on trans skeletal CC population while the peak height of the “all-trans” skeletal CC stretch mode at 1130 cm" 1 depends on the populationof all-trans segments, the interpretation of thespectra leads to the conclusion that gauche CC rotamers are more randomly distributed along the liquid alkane chains than along the acyl chains of melted DPPC.