{"title":"","authors":"Tao Zhang, Zi Wang, Shuang Li and Jiaye Su*, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":60,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry B","volume":"129 29","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c03443","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144685251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aruna K Mora, Dibyendu Bandyopadhyay, Niharendu Choudhury, Prabhat K Singh
{"title":"Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal Slow Water Dynamics in Sulfobutylether-β-Cyclodextrin.","authors":"Aruna K Mora, Dibyendu Bandyopadhyay, Niharendu Choudhury, Prabhat K Singh","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c04390","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c04390","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the central role of cyclodextrins in supramolecular chemistry and biomedical formulations, their internal hydration dynamics have remained inaccessible to ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy due to the absence of a suitable vibrational reporter. Here, we present the first application of two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy to probe water dynamics inside a cyclodextrin cavity under thermal equilibrium. By employing azidoadamantane (AdN<sub>3</sub>)─an intelligently designed vibrational reporter that combines strong binding affinity for a cyclodextrin cavity with a spectrally isolated azide stretch─we investigate the host-guest complex of AdN<sub>3</sub> and sulfobutylether-β-cyclodextrin (SBE-β-CD). The 2DIR spectra reveal minimal spectral diffusion, strong vibrational frequency correlation, and extended water residence times, indicative of a rigid, nanoconfined hydration environment. Frequency-frequency correlation function (FFCF) analysis and complementary molecular dynamics simulations show that restricted translational mobility governs these slow dynamics. This combined experimental-computational approach underscores the unique hydration dynamics within cyclodextrin cavities and highlights the potential of 2DIR spectroscopy for probing ultrafast hydration in nanoscale cavities and provides critical mechanistic insights with broad implications for drug delivery, molecular recognition, and confined water systems. Unlike previous reports attributing interfacial water slowdown to polar or ionic binding, we identify steric confinement by a host cavity as a distinct cause of retarded water dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":60,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry B","volume":" ","pages":"7686-7697"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calculations of the Absolute Free Energy, Enthalpy, and Entropy of Drug Binding Using Different Potential Models.","authors":"Steven W Rick, Christopher M Summa","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c07569","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c07569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The sensitivity of the free energy, enthalpy, and entropy of ligand binding to variations in the water, protein, and ligand potentials was determined. Nine protein ligand systems with four different proteins were used with four different potential models. Good accuracy of the free energy was achieved for a number of the models, but the enthalpy and entropy changes were far less accurate. A simple scaling of the ligand-water and ligand-protein dispersion interactions showed improved entropies and enthalpies of binding. Further improvements might require ligand potentials specifically parametrized for use with a more optimized water model.</p>","PeriodicalId":60,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry B","volume":" ","pages":"7442-7449"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chang Q Sun, Chunyang Nie, Yongli Huang, Yong Zhou, Xuexian Yang, Lei Zhang, Biao Wang
{"title":"H-O Bond Dynamics: Length, Energy, and Flexibility under Perturbation.","authors":"Chang Q Sun, Chunyang Nie, Yongli Huang, Yong Zhou, Xuexian Yang, Lei Zhang, Biao Wang","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c02544","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c02544","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study reveals the dynamic flexibility of the intramolecular H-O bond under perturbations (pressure, temperature, coordination, and electric field), challenging its conventional rigidity and proton dynamic mobiity. By integrating bond nature index (<i>m</i>) analysis, tight-binding theory, and perturbation-resolved phonon spectroscopy (PRS), we quantify perturbation-driven changes in H-O bond length, energy, vibrational stiffness, O 1s core-level energy, and O:H nonbonding distance. A spectroscopic database correlates H-O bond relaxation and energy transfer in water, ice, hydroxides, and extraterrestrial systems (e.g., lunar water), capturing anomalies such as bond elongation under compression and contraction upon heating. These results redefine classical two-body hydrogen bonding models by emphasizing cooperative O:↔:O coupling and bond adaptability. Our approach enables direct extraction of bond parameters from spectral data, advancing predictive models for phase behavior and energy dynamics in hydrogen-bonded networks across chemistry, materials science, and planetary research.</p>","PeriodicalId":60,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry B","volume":" ","pages":"7576-7583"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Static and Dynamic Correlations in Binary and Ternary Mixtures of TMAO, Urea, and Water.","authors":"Christoph Hölzl, Dominik Horinek","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c03841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c03841","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Force field molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous solutions of TMAO and urea are used to investigate the delicate interactions in binary and ternary mixtures of one of the most important osmolyte systems. We explore the effect of the choice of force fields on local interactions and thermodynamics. Fully decomposed dielectric relaxation spectra from simulations are used to interpret existing experimental data and evaluate currently used fitting techniques. We show that many force field combinations describe the potential of mean force between urea and TMAO, but it is more challenging to describe thermodynamic data for the ternary system like activity coefficients.</p>","PeriodicalId":60,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry B","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144697127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher M Ng, Vivian Kui, Katherine Y Han, Eric R Kempson, Margaret Mandziuk
{"title":"Arginine: II. Interactions of Its Salt Bridges with Branched Aliphatic Side Chains.","authors":"Christopher M Ng, Vivian Kui, Katherine Y Han, Eric R Kempson, Margaret Mandziuk","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c02172","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c02172","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous analyses of the structures deposited in the PDB revealed that arginine (Arg) side chains are often in close contact with leucine (Leu) side chains. In the previous paper, we studied interactions between Leu and Arg side chains alone [Ng et al. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c02168]. In this work, we have focused on the interactions between Leu side chains and salt bridges formed between Arg and acidic side chains. We inspected the trimer structures of the three side chains: Leu, Arg, and an acidic residue in the high-resolution files in the PDB. We also performed optimization of the model trimers with the ωB97X-D density functional and aug-cc-pVTZ basis set. We found that the salt bridges in a relatively low-polarity environment are most likely in a dynamic equilibrium between an ionic form and two neutral tautomers. That leads to the increased distances between Arg and the acidic residue as well as to the increased density of low-energy vibrational states, consequently increasing specific heat and entropy. The Leu residue controls the polarity of the environment. These findings explain why an increased number of salt bridges provides increased stability to the thermophilic enzymes and increases the fluctuations and mobility of psychrophilic proteins. Further studies are needed to find out whether methyl protons are scrambled with amino protons. We also performed calculations on the trimers with the doubly protonated Arg side chain. Energy of such trimers is lower than the energy of the monoprotonated trimers. Their lowest energy is obtained after a proton transfer to an acidic residue, and the guanidinium ion returns to the lowest energy planar structure. Such proton transfer may occur in membrane proteins where salt bridges are interspersed between nonpolar residues.</p>","PeriodicalId":60,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry B","volume":" ","pages":"7430-7441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12302201/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144590085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aglycone, Glycoside, or Glucuronide? Experimental and Mechanistic Insights into the Antioxidative Potential of Gossypetin, Gossypin, and Hibifolin.","authors":"Maciej Spiegel, Adam Kowalczyk","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c03338","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c03338","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oxidative stress, caused by an imbalance between reactive oxygen species and antioxidants, drives chronic diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration. This study investigates the antioxidant potential of three flavonoids from the <i>Malvaceae</i> family─gossypetin, gossypin, and hibifolin─using DPPH (radical scavenging) and FRAP (reducing power) assays, backed by quantum mechanical computations. Gossypetin displayed exceptional scavenging (TEAC: 111.53 mM/g) and reducing power (TEAC: 155.24 mM/g), thanks to its hydroxyl-rich structure, positioning it as a promising therapeutic option for oxidative stress-related conditions. Gossypin provided moderate scavenging (TEAC: 41.68 mM/g) but robust reducing capacity (TEAC: 126.28 mM/g), making it well-suited for food preservation. Hibifolin, with its stable glucuronyl group, showed balanced scavenging and reducing abilities (TEAC: 39.99 mM/g; 94.67 mM/g), ideal for nutraceuticals. Quantum mechanical analyses revealed the mechanisms behind these antioxidant effects, shedding light on their performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":60,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry B","volume":" ","pages":"7593-7601"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12302068/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144641164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Electron Donating Ability of Pendant Groups in the Photophysics of Donor-Acceptor-Donor Diaminoterephthalate Derivatives.","authors":"Arkaprava Chowdhury, Sucheta Kundu, Souradip Dasgupta, Ayushi Chand, Anindya Datta","doi":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c02113","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c02113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The electron-donating ability of the pendant group has been found to have a very strong influence on the excited state processes of donor-acceptor-donor diaminoterephthalate derivatives. The derivative with the strongest electron donating moiety is found to have the maximum degree of stabilization of the dipolar excited state in polar solvents, while the emission of the one with the weakest electron donor originates from a relatively less stabilized charge transfer state. Blue shifted emission band along with significantly increased lifetime at low temperature (77 K) bolsters the contention behind intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) as the main excited state process involved in this library of molecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":60,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Physical Chemistry B","volume":" ","pages":"7567-7575"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144525435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}