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The interaction between natural amino acids and hydrogen peroxide is of paramount importance due to the widespread use of hydrogen peroxide in biological and environmentally significant processes. Given that both amino acids and hydrogen peroxide occur in nature in two enantiomeric forms, it is crucial to investigate the formation of complexes between them, considering the role of molecular chirality. In this work, we report a theoretical study on the hydrogen peroxide enantiomers and their interactions with L- and S-serine and their clusters. We aimed to evaluate the non-covalent interactions between each hydrogen peroxide enantiomer and the L- and D-enantiomers of the non-essential amino acid serine and their clusters. First, the potential energy surfaces (PES) of transitions between enantiomers of the simplest chiral molecule, hydrogen peroxide, in the gas phase and in aqueous solution were studied using the Møller-Plesset theory method MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ. The activation energies of such transitions were calculated. The interactions of both hydrogen peroxide enantiomers (P and M) with L- and D-serine enantiomers were analyzed by density functional theory (DFT) with ωb97xd/6-311+G**, B3Lyp/6-311+G**, B3P86/6-311+G**, and M06/6-311+G** functionals. We found that both enantiomers of hydrogen peroxide bind more strongly to L-serine and its clusters than to D-serine, especially highlighting that the L form is the predominant natural form of this and other chiral amino acids. The optimized geometric parameters, interaction energies, and HOMO-LUMO energies for various complexes were estimated. Furthermore, circular dichroism (CD) spectra, which are optical chirality characteristics, were simulated for all the complexes under study.

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Five new thiophenoxyketinimines have been synthesized. 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra as well as deuterium isotope effects on 13 C chemical shifts are determined, and spectra are assigned. DFT and MP2 calculations of both structures, chemical shifts, and isotope effects on chemical shifts are done. The combined analysis reveals that the compounds are primarily on a zwitterionic form with an NH+ and a S- group and with a little of the neutral form mixed in. Very strong intramolecular hydrogen bonding is found and very high NH chemical shifts are observed. The theoretical calculations show that calculations at the MP2 level are best to obtain correct "C═S" chemical shifts.

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Raman (3400-100 cm(-1)) and infrared (4000-200 cm(-1)) spectra of 5-(methylthio)-1,3,4-thiadiazole-2(3H)-thione (C3H4N2S3; MTT) were measured in the solid state, and the (1)H/(13)C NMR spectra were obtained in DMSO-d6. Initially, twelve structures were proposed as a result of thiol-thione tautomerism and the internal rotation about the C-S bonds. The energies and vibrational frequencies of the optimized structures were calculated using the 6-31G(d) basis set with the methods of MP2 and DFT/B3LYP with Gaussian 98 quantum calculations. Additionally, (1)H/(13)C NMR chemical shifts were predicted for the thiol (structure 5) and thione (structure 9) tautomers by means of B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) calculations utilizing the GIAO approximation and the PCM solvation model. After complete relaxation of twelve candidate isomers, the thione tautomer (structure 9) was favored owing to its low energy and its predicted real spectral frequencies. These results agree with the recorded infrared and Raman results, in addition to the observed/calculated (1)H and (13)C NMR spectra. Aided by normal coordinate analysis and potential energy distributions (PEDs), complete vibrational assignments have been proposed for all observed fundamentals for the thione tautomer. With the aid of MP2/6-31G(d) potential surface scans, CH3, CH3S, and SH barriers to internal rotations were estimated with the optimized structural parameters from the MP2 method with the 6-31G(d) basis set. The results are discussed herein and compared with similar model compounds whenever appropriate.

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Vibrational spectra and molecular structure of anhydrous caffeine have been systematically investigated by second order Moller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Vibrational assignments have been made and many previous ambiguous assignments in IR and Raman spectra are amended. The calculated DFT frequencies and intensities at B3LYP/6-311++G(2d,2p) level, were found to be in better agreement with the experimental values. It was found that DFT with B3LYP functional predicts harmonic vibrational wave numbers more close to experimentally observed value when it was performed on MP2 optimized geometry rather than DFT geometry. The calculated TD-DFT vertical excitation electronic energies of the valence excited states of anhydrous caffeine are found to be in consonance to the experimental absorption peaks.

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