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SUBMITTER: Eberhardt ES
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3065016 | biostudies-literature | 1992
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eberhardt Eric S ES Loh Stewart N SN Hinck Andrew P AP Raines Ronald T RT
Journal of the American Chemical Society 19920101 13
Racemic Ac-Gly-[β,δ-(13)C]Pro-OMe was synthesized, and the kinetics and thermodynamics of the isomerization of its prolyl peptide bond were determined in nine solvents by using NMR and IR spectroscopy. The free energy of activation is 1.3 kcal/mol larger in water than in aprotic solvents, and correlates with the ability of a solvent to donate a hydrogen bond but not with solvent polarity. These results are consistent with conventional pictures of amide resonance, which require transfer of charge ...[more]