Gas-Phase Stereoinversion in Aspartic Acid: Reaction Pathways, Computational Spectroscopic Analysis, and Its Astrophysical Relevance.

ABSTRACT: Noncatalytic reaction pathways for the gas-phase stereoinversion in aspartic acid are mapped employing a global reaction route mapping strategy using quantum mechanical computations. The species including the transition states (TSs) traced along the stereoinversion pathways are characterized using rotational and vibrational computational spectroscopic analysis while accounting for the vibrational corrections to rotational constants and anharmonic effects. Notably, the TS structures traced along the stereochemical pathways resemble the achiral ammonium ylide and imine intermediates as observed in the Strecker synthesis of chiral amino acids. A few of the probable stereoinversion pathways proposed proceed through the proton or hydrogen atom transfer. The feasibility of the pathways under con

SUBMITTER: Kaur R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6645146 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature