Infrared and vibrational circular dichroism spectra of methyl β‐D‐glucopyranose in water: The application of the <i>quantum cluster growth</i> and <i>clusters‐in‐a‐liquid</i> solvation models
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Abstract
Abstract The infrared (IR) and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra of methyl β‐D‐glucopyranose in water were measured. Both implicit and explicit solvation models were utilized to explain the observed spectra. The vast body of existing experimental and theoretical data suggested that about eight explicit water molecules are needed to account for the solvent effects, supported by the current Quantum Cluster Growth (QCG) analysis. Extensive manual and systematic conformational searches of the molecular target and its water clusters were carried out by using a recently developed conformational searching tool, conformer‐rotamer ensemble sampling tool (CREST), and the microsolvation model in the associated QCG code. The Boltzmann averaged IR and VCD spectra of the methyl β‐D‐glucopyranose‐(water) n ( n = 8) conformers in the PCM of water provide better agreement with the experimental ones than those with n = 0, 1, and 2. The explicit solvation with eight water molecules was shown to greatly modify the conformational preference of methyl β‐D‐glucopyranose from its monomeric form. Further analyses show that the result is consistent with the existence of long‐lived methyl β‐D‐glucopyranose monohydrates with the additional explicit water effects being accounted for with the quantum mechanical treatment of the other seven close‐by water molecules in the PCM of water.
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