Stopped-flow circular dichroism

As is apparent from previous chapters (Chapters 6, 8 and 9), understanding the kinetics of chemical and biological processes is extremely important Questions we often consider, explicitly or implicitly, include Has something happened instantaneously or will it take 20 years Does changing the conditions or available reagents affect either the end product or the rate of a process What intermediates are produced during a reaction Can we characterize any intermediates Do we need to remove them to prevent side reactions  

In establishing a stopped-flow CD system for a particular laboratory a number of different factors need to be taken into consideration. The most important of these are  

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The AV data of Fig. 5.1 that are satisfactorily accounted for by Eqs (5.5)-(5.8) are fewer in number than the anomalous cases of Table 5.1. This is a rather unsatisfactory situation, even though most of the anomalies can be explained away - indeed, deviations from the predictions of Eqs (5.5)-(5.8) can often provide important mechanistic information. More AV data are clearly desirable, but the prospects for further successful experiments are poor. The measurements of AV summarized in Fig. 5.1 and Table 5.1 were obtained at high pressures by radiochemical tracer methods for the slowest reactions [12, 17, 25], NMR linebroadening techniques for the faster cases [11, 13, 15, 19-22, 34], and stopped-flow circular dichroism [13, 14, 18] for moderately rapid reactions of reactants that could be prepared as resolved enantiomers. There are, however, many self-exchange reactions that are inaccessible to these techniques. For example, rates of electron transfer in couples where both reactants have unpaired electrons generally cannot be studied by NMR methods, while other couples that undergo electron transfer at intermediate rates may not be resolvable into optical isomers or be amenable to radiochemical sampling procedures under pressure. 

An alternative stopped-flow attachment, designed for use with Jasco J-700 series spectropolarimeters, is the HI-TECH Scientific SHU-61CD with pneumatic drive. Its temperature range is 5-80 C, its pathlength is 2 mm, it has a 3.5 mm window size and a cell volume of 19 (i,l. The mixer is integral to the cell. 200 p,l is required per shot with 2 ml to prime the flowlines. Drive syringes may be altered to allow variable mixing. Hi-Tech do not offer a dedicated stopped-flow circular dichroism system. 

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The electron transfer reaction in Reaction 6 was measured by circular dichroism stopped-flow methods at pH 7.7. Only the tetra-L-alanine... 

In general, stopped-flow methods provide a reasonably inexpensive means of determining a large number of fairly fast reactions. Stopped-flow mixing is usually coupled with real-time optical observation using absorbance (UV through IR see. Vibrational Spectroscopy), fluorescence emission, or circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. In addition, the stopped-flow technique has been implemented in conjunction with many other biophysical techniques, such as EPR, NMR (see Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy... 

CD = circular dichroism DCPIP = 2, 6-dichloro-phenolindophenol EPR = electron paramagnetic resonance ESI-MS = electrospray ionization mass spectrometry FTIR = Fourier transform infrared FRET = fluorescence resonant energy transfer 5 -GMP = guanosine-5 -monopho-sphate L-Met = L-methionine NAAD = nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide MS = mass spectrometry NMR = nuclear magnetic resonance PEEK = polyetheretherketone SF = stopped-flow SVD = singular value decomposition tu = thiourea. 

Similar to circular dichroism, racemizations can be measured after preparative enrichment of the enantiomers ( offline ) or without enrichment ( on line ). The latter technique26,30 is mainly applied because of fast enantiomerization (AG% < 100kJmol 1). During a stop of the chromatographic flow at the peak of the antipodes, the decrease of the rotation angle (or the differential absorbance Figure 7, top) at a fixed wavelength is monitored as a function of time. The results... 

G. Brandi, F. Kastner, R. Fritsch, H. Zinner, and A. Mannschreck, On-line measurement of circular dichroism spectra Ae(k) during stops of chromatographic flow, Monatsch. Chem. 123, 1059-1069 (1992). 

In stopped-flow kinetics, small volumes of reagent solutions are mixed rapidly in a flow cell by injection from separate syringes (Figure 6.3). The flow cell is typically fitted with transparent quartz windows so that UV/vis absorbance or fluorescence can be followed as a function of time. Circular dichroism (CD) kinetics can also be measured in some instruments. The injection pulse is controlled by a stopping syringe which, when it hits the end stop, electronically triggers the detector to start recording. 

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