Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 42 (3), P. 388 - 391, 2004<br />
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THE MOLECULAR CONFORMATIONS OF -D-1-AMINO-1-<br />
DEOXYGLUCOPYRANOSE<br />
Received 27-9-2003<br />
Nguyen Dinh Thanh<br />
Faculty of Chemistry, University of Natural Sciences, Hanoi National University<br />
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SUMMARY<br />
The exocyclic hydroxymethyl group of the -D-1-amino-1-deoxyglucopyranose can rotate<br />
around the carbon-carbon bond. Potential energy surface for this rotation has been investigated<br />
using ab initio quantum chemical methods. Relevant stationary points, including for the first time<br />
rotational transition states have been characterized by full geometry optimization using basis sets<br />
6-31G(d) and 6-31G(2d,lp). There is a total of six stationary points along the hydroxymethyl<br />
rotational surface, including three minima and three transition states were identified. The effects<br />
of basis set augmentation and electron correlation on the relative energies are small; the relative<br />
energies for each stationary point vary by less than 2.5 kJ/mol for all levels of theory considered.<br />
The final barriers to hydroxymethyl rotation ranged from 15 to 41 kJ/mol.<br />
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I - Introduction this work reports ab initio quantum chemical<br />
calculations on various rotation conformers of<br />
Some compounds containing -D-glucosyl- -D-1-amino-1-deoxyglucopyranose (figure l)<br />
amine (i.e. -D-1-amino-1-deoxygluco- to characterize quantitatively the complete<br />
pyranose) were found in the nature. For intrinsic gas-phase exocyclic hydroxymethyl<br />
example, the glucosylamines of procainamide rotational surface.<br />
and the pharmacokinetics of the beta-<br />
glucosylamine of procainamide in the conscious II - Computational Model<br />
rabbit were evaluated [1]. It is similar in -D-2-<br />
amino-2-deoxyglucopyranose, a particularly Structure, relative energies, and vibrational<br />
critical region of the glucopyranose conforma- frequencies of the particular stationary points,<br />
tional surface relates to rotation of the exocyclic including stable minima and the transition<br />
hydroxymethyl group [3, 4]. Three minimum states connecting them, associated with rotation<br />
conformations were found along the exocyclic about the exocyclic C5-C6 bond have been<br />
hydroxymethyl rotational surface designated determined at the restricted Hartree-Fock<br />
GG (gauche gauche), GT (gauche trans), and (RHF) at the correlated levels using basic sets<br />
TG (trans gauche), each separated by ranging in quality from 6-31G(d) and 6-<br />
approximately 120o dihedral rotation. The 31G(2d,1p). Effects of dynamical electron<br />
relative energy differences between conformers correlation on the molecular structure and the<br />
of was small (< 4 kJ/mol) and somewhat basic relative energies were estimated using second-<br />
set dependent [5]. order MØller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2)<br />
Continuing the previous articles about - at level 6-31G(d) [6] and the density-functional<br />
and -2-amino-2-deoxyglucopyranoses [3, 4], methods (DFT), employing the Becker’s three<br />
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parameter hybrid exchange functionals [7 - 9]. levels. The rotational surface consists of three<br />
The most stable overall rotational stable minima. Starting from the most stable<br />
conformation of the -D-1-amino-1- rotational conformer at the RHF 6-31G(d) level,<br />
deoxygluco-pyranose, in which the hydroxyl TG, in which the hydroxymethyl group is<br />
groups at C1 through C4 are in a approximately parallel to the ring with a O5-C5-<br />
counterclockwise arrangement, was chosen as C6-O6 dihedral angle ( ) of 167.83o, rotation<br />
the reference state (figure 1), consistent with about leads initially to transition structure TS1<br />
Polavarapu and Ewig [10] and Glennon et al ( = -130.33o), and then to a second minimum<br />
[5]. All calculations were performed using structure GG ( = -56.50o), in which the<br />
GAMESS 6.2 electronic structure package [11]. hydroxymethyl group is roughly perpendicular<br />
to the glucopyranose ring. Continued rotation<br />
O6<br />
O6<br />
about leads to a second transition state, TS2 (<br />
C6<br />
O4<br />
C6<br />
= 0.94o), followed by a third minimum, GT ( =<br />
C4<br />
C5 O4<br />
59.40o). Further rotation about leads back to<br />
O5 C4 C5<br />
O3 O5 the initial structure TG through a third<br />
C3<br />
C2 O3 C3<br />
transition state, TS3 ( = 59.29o). Aside from<br />
C1 C2 C1<br />
slight variation in the C5-C6 bond distance<br />
O2<br />
N1 N1 between each minimum and their associated<br />
O2<br />
rotational transition states due to electron-<br />
a b electron repulsion, the overall structures of the<br />
various rotational conformers are very similar,<br />
Figure 1. TG conformation of -D-1-amino-1-<br />
with the orientation of the primary hydroxyl<br />
deoxyglucopyranose with appropriate atom group as only exception.<br />
labels: (a) counterclockwise and (b) clockwise.<br />
Bond distances are those obtained at the RHF 6- The conformational energy surfaces of<br />
31G(d) and MP2 6-31 G(d) levels of theory hexoses, in general, and of glucopyranose, in<br />
particular, are extremely complex. Given the<br />
III - Results and Discussion rotational freedom of the hydroxyl groups, there<br />
are thousands of possible conformers. However,<br />
A three-dimensional representation of the the complexity can be greatly reduced when<br />
most stable conformer of -D-1-amino-1- intramolecular hydrogen bonding is considered<br />
deoxyglucopyranose are shown in figure 1 in in preliminary conformation search, i.e., the low<br />
the counterclockwise arrangement, designated lying conformation should maximize<br />
TG (trans gauche) along with important bond intramolecular hydrogen bonding. For the<br />
distances obtained at the RHF 6-31G(d) and 6- isolated molecule, the hydroxyls prefer to orient<br />
31G(2d,1p) levels. Basis set expansion through in such a way as to yield a cooperative<br />
6-31G(2p,1d) was found to only moderately hydrogen bonding that is as efficient as<br />
affect these structural parameters. For the C-C, possible. For glucopyranose, the OH groups<br />
C-O, O-H and N-H bonds, basis set expansion may take clockwise (figure 1a) or<br />
causes a contraction (ca. 0.0008 - 0.0068 Å) counterclockwise (figure 1b) orientations. It<br />
was found previously that the counterclockwise<br />
while the C-H bonds are elongated (ca. 0.0007 -<br />
orientation was preferred, and that preference<br />
0.0013 Å); especially, the C-N bond is was confirmed in this work. For a TG<br />
elongated a little. The reason for this is not glucopyranose, the counterclockwise<br />
clear; it could be a result of the limited conformation was found to be -9.41 kJ/mol<br />
flexibility of the 6-31G(d) basis set. more stable than the corresponding clockwise<br />
Figure 2 shows a graphical representation of conformation at the RHF 6-31G(d) level<br />
the hydroxymethyl rotational energy surface at (Absolute energies of the TG counterclockwise<br />
both the RHF 6-31G(d) and 6-31G(2d,1p) and clockwise conformations are -663.496975<br />
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and -663.500558 hartrees, respectively).<br />
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TS1 Figure 2: Relative energy<br />
40.76 diagram (kJ/mol) at the RHF 6-<br />
31G(d) (solid line) and 6-<br />
38.44 31G(2d,1p) (dashed line) levels of<br />
TS2<br />
25.79 theory for the stationary points<br />
TS3 along the exocyclic hydroxy-<br />
25.37 16.53<br />
methyl rotational surface of -D-<br />
14.23<br />
1-amino-1-deoxyglucopy-ranose.<br />
GT The internal coordinate is<br />
TG GG TG<br />
0.22 0.0 defined as the O6-C6-C5-O5<br />
0.0 -1.12<br />
-0.29 dihedral angle<br />
-1.46<br />
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Table 1: Relative energy, E, for conformations Tables 1 and 2 list the relative energetic<br />
of -D-1-amino-1-deoxygluco-pyranose data for each stationary point on the rotational<br />
(kJ/mol) surface at various ab initio computational<br />
levels. The relative energetic data for each<br />
Level of Theory<br />
stationary point are only modest influenced by<br />
Confor. a RHF basis set augmentation over the RHF 6-31G(d),<br />
RHF MP2<br />
6-31G 6-31G(2d,1p), with shifts of less 3 kJ/mol<br />
6-31G(d) 6-31G(d)<br />
(2d,1p)<br />
overall. Three minimum conformations (TG,<br />
TG GG, GT) are found to be different in energy.<br />
0.0 b 0.0b 0.0<br />
(167.59o) The TG conformation is the most stable, and the<br />
TS1 relative energy differences between two remain<br />
40.76 38.44<br />
(-130.59o) minimum conformers (GG and GT) are 1.33<br />
GG<br />
-1.12 -1.46 -1.74 and 1.17 kJ/mol at the RHF 6-31G(d) and RHF<br />
(-56.96o)<br />
6-31G(2d,1p), respectively. Thus, the TG<br />
TS2<br />
25.79 25.37 conformer is, maybe, the more stable one in the<br />
(1.05o)<br />
gas phase. The relative final ordering, obtained<br />
GT<br />
0.22 -0.29 1.40 at the RHF 6 31G(d) for free energies (in<br />
(60.33o)<br />
TS3 kJ/mol), is GG (-0.103) > GT (-0.037) > TG<br />
16.53 14.23 (0.0).<br />
(60.00o)<br />
a<br />
Values in parentheses are the O5-C5-C6-O6 All the stationary points identified on the<br />
dihedral angles of the RHF 6-31G(2d,1p) optimized hydroxymethyl rotational surface consist of<br />
geometries. bAbsolute energies for the TG conformations that are influenced by<br />
conformation, in hartrees, are -663.496975, - intramolecular interactions between the C6<br />
663.563862 and -665.3305994 for RHF 6-31G(d),<br />
hydroxyl and nearby oxygens (A hydrogen<br />
RHF 6-31G(2d,1p) and MP2 6-31G(d) calculations,<br />
respectively. The TG conformer was defined as zero bond is defined by an O-H distance of less 2.6<br />
by convention. Å and an O-H-O angle of greater than 120o,<br />
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Table 2: Corrected Energies for hydrogen-bonding threshold and the stability of<br />
conformations of -D-1-amino-1-deoxygluco- the conformers, suggesting that the somewhat<br />
pyranose (kJ/mol) arbitrary definition of hydrogen bonding loses<br />
its meaning when referring to intramolecular<br />
Conforme (E+ZPVE)<br />
r a H og b G og b interactions in carbohydrates.<br />
The amino-group on C1 atom also forms an<br />
TG 0.00 0.00 0.00 intramolecular hydrogen bond with the oxygen<br />
TS1 5.71 7.46 9.69 atom O5. The values of N1H-O5 distances and<br />
N1-N1H-O5 angles for the conformation are<br />
GG 0.76 0.57 -0.103 following: GG 2.3948 Å, 103.82o; GT 2.4005<br />
TS2 4.44 6.20 8.13 Å, 104.04o; TG 2.3990 Å, 103.95o; TS1 2.4070<br />
GT 1.24 0.91 -0.037 Å, 104.18; TS2 2.3877 Å , 104.81o; TS3 2.3838<br />
TS3 6.83 8.27 8.07 Å, 105.28o. Interestingly, the intramolecular<br />
a<br />
hydrogen bond in all conformers has the same<br />
Zero-point vibrational energy (ZPVE) stability. The intrinsic exocyclic hydroxymethyl<br />
corrections were calculated from harmonic<br />
vibrational frequencies determined at the RHF 6-<br />
rotational barriers in glucopyranose are<br />
31G(d) level and scaled by a factor of 1.00 in accord substantial, ranging from ~34 kJ/mol for TS1 to<br />
~20 kJ/mol for TS2, depending on the level of<br />
with known overestimates at this level. b<br />
H og theory. Similar to the minima, the basis set<br />
= (E + ZPVE) + CpT and G og = H og augmentation has affected on the structures or<br />
the relative energies of the rotational transition<br />
T. Sog are the relative gas-phase enthalpy and free states. Moreover, based on the final ab initio<br />
energy, respectively. results, the relative transition state energies are<br />
in order TS3 > TS2 > TS1, indicating that the<br />
consistent with the definition of Glennon et al most facile interconversion in the gas phase is<br />
[7]). In the TG conformer, the C6 hydroxyl between TG and GT.<br />
forms an intramolecular hydrogen bond with<br />
O4 (O6H-O4 distance 2.1088 Å, O6-O6H-O4 III - Conclusion<br />
angle 133.54o), and in the TS1 transition state,<br />
this hydrogen bond is not maintained (O6H-O4 The rotational energy surface for the<br />
distance 3.0186 Å, O6-O6H-O4 angle 74.74o). exocyclic hydroxymethyl group of -D-1-<br />
In the GG conformer, O6H does not form a amino-1-deoxyglucopyranose has been<br />
hydrogen bond with O4 (O6H-O4 distance described using high-level ab initio methods.<br />
4.1700 Å, O6-O6H-O4 angle 50.62o), and These data definitively establish the potential<br />
instead of orienting toward O4, O6H orients energy surface along this coordinate in the gas<br />
toward O5 in this conformer and form a phase.<br />
hydrogen bond with O5 formed (O6H-O5<br />
distance 2.3341 Å, O6-O6H-O5 angle 105.00o), This publication was financially supported<br />
but it is not a true hydrogen bond. In the TS2 by the National Basic Research Program in<br />
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