Librational dynamics

Emde MF, Baltuska A, Kummrow A, Pshenichnikov MS, Wiersma DA. Ultrafast librational dynamics of the hydrated electron. Phys Rev Lett 1998 80 4645-4648. 

However, for all of these interactions it is important to have the dynamics effectively modeled. Librational dynamics of significant amplitude can average the tensor elements. Such motions are present even in polycrystalline samples [18]. Shown in Fig. 6.4.5 are powder pattern spectra at 276 K, below the gel to liquid crystalline phase transition that quenches global dynamics, but retains local dynamics [19] and at 143 K, well below the temperature that quenches most librational motions [20]. 

A was proven proper and used extensively to account for H-N bond libration dynamics [50]. A shght increase in effective bond length for RDC analysis also apphes... 

The fast correlator (See (2.43)) describes all the liquid dynamics that is not a pure diffusive process. So, on the fast time scale, the liquid is taken to be in frozen structures. The molecules can vibrate/librate but their mean positions are substantially fixed. The fast vibrational/librational dynamics is collective but typically does not show correlation over many molecules, and so it can be studied as a local dynamics. There are no exact models able to describe such many-body problems [57], but there exist different phenomenological approaches. They are a natural progression of the long-standing problem of cage structures in molecular liquids [64]. 

The dynamic (2.46) is an integro-differential second-order expression where it appears a simple term proportional to Q and a complex term defined by the convolution of the Q time-derivative. The simple term describes a vibra-tional/librational dynamics summarized in the uj -i frequency. This dynamical process, similar to the previous fast dynamics, could be considered the oscillatory motion of a representative molecule in an effective local harmonic potential well defined by the frozen local liquid structure. The complex term describes the slower dynamical phenomena by means of a memory function, 7(f). This function is the key parameter to describe the dynamics of complex liquids. This dynamical equation and the memory function can be also rigorously obtained... 

A detailed examination of LN behavior is available [88] for the blocked alanine model, the proteins BPTI and lysozyme, and a large water system, compared to reference Langevin trajectories, in terms of energetic, geometric, and dynamic behavior. The middle timestep in LN can be considered an adjustable quantity (when force splitting is used), whose value does not significantly affect performance but does affect accuracy with respect to the reference trajectories. For example, we have used Atm = 3 fs for the proteins in vacuum, but 1 fs for the water system, where librational motions are rapid. 

A negative change in entropy associated with the decreased freedom of motion of water molecules in the vicinity of a nonpolar group. As pointed out by Jencks one should not be too literal when interpreting this behavior, because the system is dynamic, and not frozen. The term flickering cluster implies some reduction in libration and rotation without complete loss. 

When the protocol is applied to allylcarbamates 170, the deprotonation in the presence of (—)-sparteine does not occur with kinetic preference. Indeed, a dynamic resolntion by crystallization takes place. The epimeric allylfithinm componnds 171 and 172 are eqni-librating, whereby one of them crystallizes predominantly. Under optimized conditions, when n-butyllithium is used for the deprotonation and cyclohexane serves as a cosolvent, the preference of the diastereomer 172 leads to snbstimtion products in 90-94% gg393-395 enantioselective homoaldol reaction has been developed based on this protocol Transmetalation of the organolithium into the titaninm compound occnrring nnder inversion of the configuration (172 173) and subseqnent addition to aldehydes leads to... 

When a body undergoes vibrations, the displacements vary with time, so time averages must be taken to derive the mean-square displacements, as we did to obtain the lattice-dynamical expression of Eq. (2.58). If the librational and translational motions are independent, the cross products between the two terms in Eq. (2.69) average to zero, and the elements of the mean-square displacement tensor of atom n, U"j, are given by... 

The dynamic simulation of crystals at equilibrium is quite feasible [64] and gives information on molecular detail like the anisotropy of librations, or the frequency of molecular reorientations. Second-order phase transitions are also within scope. 

An interesting aspect of many structural phase transitions is the coupling of the primary order parameter to a secondary order parameter. In transitions of molecular crystals, the order parameter is coupled with reorientational or libration modes. In Jahn-Teller as well as ferroelastic transitions, an optical phonon or an electronic excitation is coupled with strain (acoustic phonon). In antiferrodistortive transitions, a zone-boundary phonon (primary order parameter) can induce spontaneous polarization (secondary order parameter). Magnetic resonance and vibrational spectroscopic methods provide valuable information on static as well as dynamic processes occurring during a transition (Owens et ai, 1979 Iqbal Owens, 1984 Rao, 1993). Complementary information is provided by diffraction methods. 

Miscellaneous bRC. - The bRC of R. sphaeroides contains one accessible cysteine at the H subunit (His H-156). Poluektov et al.m have bound a specific nitroxide spin label to this Cys and used temperature-dependent multifrequency (9 and 130 GHz) EPR to determine the motion of the protein. It was found that the restricted dynamics can be described as fast libration in a cone with a correlation time of >10 9 s. Several dynamically nonequivalent sites were observed that indicate conformational substates of local protein structure. 

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