Are carboxyl groups the most acidic sites in amino acids? Gas-phase acidity, H/D exchange experiments, and computations on cysteine and its conjugate base

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 5403-5407

  Tian, Zhixin ^b   Pawlow, Anna ^a   Poutsma, John C ^a   Kass, Steven R ^b  

^a William and Mary   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; CARBOXYLATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DEUTERIUM; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MASS SPECTROMETERS;

CONJUGATE BASE; CYSTEINE; ZWITTERIONIC SPECIES;

AMINO ACIDS;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; AMINO ACID; AMPHOLYTE; BASE; CARBOXYL GROUP; CYSTEINE; THIOL;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CONJUGATE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORM MASS SPECTROMETRY; GAS; KINETICS; PREDICTION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ACIDS; AMINO ACIDS; BENZYL ALCOHOL; CYSTEINE; DEUTERIUM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GASES; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34247877609     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0666194     Document Type: Article

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