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場所：筑波大学 計算科学研究センター 会議室D
日時：2017年10月25日 （水）16:00-18:00
講演タイトル：Theoretical Vibrational Spectroscopy of Aqueous TMAO Solution under High Hydrostatic Pressure Conditions
講演者氏名：井本翔博士(ルール大学ボーフム)
使用言語：英語
要旨：Hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) play a significant role in liquid water, aqueous solutions, and bio-systems and, therefore, a deep understanding of H-bonds in liquid phases is of great importance. Although many theoretical and experimental studies have been devoted to understand their properties at ambient conditions, our knowledge of H-bonds under extreme conditions, such as high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) conditions in the kilo-bar regime, is not enough. Especially, the pressure response of aqueous trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) is of great interest because it works as a protecting osmolyte against high pressure denaturation. Vibrational spectroscopy is one of the most powerful methods to elucidate structure and dynamics of H-bonds. Concerning the theoretical side, quantitative analysis on IR spectra of H-bonding systems requires not only atomistic trajectories but also accurate dipole moments because the effects of induced dipole moments and charge transfer are not negligible in these cases. In this study, by using ab initio MD simulations, we analyzed IR spectra of TMAO(aq) under HHP conditions. The solvation structure of TMAO-oxygen changes dramatically under HHP conditions; threefold H-bonding structure is dominant at 1 bar, whereas three and fourfold H-bonding structures are almost equally populated at 10 kbar [1,2]. We found that the increase in the number of H-bonds can be observed as a skewness of the N-O stretch spectra since three and fourfold H-bonding structures have slightly different resonance frequencies [3].[1] S. Imoto, H. Forbert, D. Marx, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 24224 (17).
[2] C. Hölzl, P. Kibies, S. Imoto, R. Frach, S. Suladze, R. Winter, D. Marx, D. Horinek, S. M. Kast, J. Chem. Phys. 144, 144104 (2016).
[3] S. Imoto, P. Kibies, C. Rosin, R. Winter, S. M. Kast, D. Marx, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55, 9534 (2016).世話人：重田育照懇親会： 18:30からつくばセンター界隈で懇親会を行います。参加希望なされる方は10/23までに庄司 (mshoji[at]ccs.tsukuba.ac.jp)まで、ご連絡頂けますようお願い致します。