On the Ag+ cytosine interaction: the effect of microhydration probed by IR optical spectroscopy and density functional theory

M. BERDAKIN; V. STEINMETZ; P. MAITRE; G. A. PINO *

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY

Lugar: Cambridge; Año: 2015 vol. 17 p. 25915 - 25915

he gas-phase structures of cytosine?Ag+ [CAg]+ and cytosine?Ag+?H2O [CAg?H2O]+ complexes have been studied by mass-selected infrared multiphoton dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy in the 900? 800 cm1 spectral region using the Free Electron Laser facility in Orsay (CLIO). The IRMPD experimental spectra have been compared with the calculated IR absorption spectra of the different low-lying isomers (computed at the DFT level using the B3LYP functional and the 6-311G++(d,p) basis set for C, H, N and O atoms and the Stuttgart effective core potential for Ag). For the [CAg]+ complex, only one isomer with cytosine in the keto-amino (KA) tautomeric form and Ag+ interacting simultaneously with the C(2)QO(7) group and N(3) of cytosine was observed. However, the mono-hydration of the complex in the gas phase leads to the stabilization of a two quasi-isoenergetic structure of the [CAg?H2O]+ complex, in which Ag+ interacts with the O atom of the water molecule and with the N(3) or C(2)QO(7) group o