Structural characterization of synthetic and protein-bound porphyrins in terms of the lowest-frequency normal coordinates of the macrocycle
- Sandia National Lab., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
The X-ray crystal structures of synthetic and protein-bound metalloporphyrins are analyzed using a new normal structural decomposition method for classifying and quantifying their out-of-plane and in-plane distortions. These distortions are characterized in terms of equivalent displacements along the normal coordinates of the D{sub 4h}-symmetric porphyrin macrocycle (normal deformations). It is shown that the macrocyclic structure is, even in highly distorted porphyrins, accurately represented by displacements along only the lowest-frequency normal coordinates. Accordingly, the macrocyclic structure obtained from just the out-of-plane normal deformations of the saddling (sad, B{sub 2u})-, ruffling (ruf, B{sub 1u})-, doming (dom, A{sub 2u})-, waving [wav(x), wav(y); E{sub g}]-, and propellering (pro, A{sub 1u})-type essentially simulates the out-of-plane distortion of the X-ray crystal structure. Similarly, the observed in-plane distortions are decomposed into in-plane normal deformations corresponding to the lowest-frequency vibrational modes including macrocycle stretching in the direction of the meso-carbon atoms (meso-str, B{sub 2g}), stretching in the direction of the nitrogen atoms (N-str, B{sub 1g}), x and y pyrrole translations [trn(x), trn(y); E{sub u}], macrocycle breathing (bre, A{sub 1g}), and pyrrole rotation (rot, A{sub 2g}). 71 refs., 9 figs., 4 tabs.
- OSTI ID:
- 505187
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry B: Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces, amp Biophysical, Vol. 101, Issue 9; Other Information: PBD: 27 Feb 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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