Excited State Resonance Raman of flavin mononucleotide: Comparison of theory and experiment

Green, Dale ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2549-0486, Roy, Palas, Hall, Christopher R., Iuliano, James N., Jones, Garth, Lukacs, Andras, Tonge, Peter J. and Meech, Stephen R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5561-2782 (2021) Excited State Resonance Raman of flavin mononucleotide: Comparison of theory and experiment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 125 (28). pp. 6171-6179. ISSN 1089-5639

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Abstract

Blue light absorbing flavoproteins play important roles in a variety of photobiological processes. Consequently, there have been numerous investigations of their excited state structure and dynamics, in particular by time resolved vibrational spectroscopy. The isoalloxazine chromophore of the flavoprotein co-factors has been studied in detail by time resolved Raman, lending it a benchmark status for mode assignments in excited electronic states of large molecules. However, detailed comparisons of calculated and measured spectra have proven challenging, as there are many more modes calculated than are observed, and the role of resonance enhancement is difficult to characterise in excited electronic states. Here we employ a recently developed approach due to Elles and co-workers. (J. Phys. Chem. A 2018, 122, 8308–8319) for the calculation of resonance enhanced Raman spectra of excited states, and apply it to the lowest singlet and triplet excited states of the isoalloxazine chromophore. There is generally good agreement between calculated and observed enhancements, which allows assignment of vibrational bands of the flavoprotein co-factors to be refined. However, some prominently enhanced bands are found to be absent from the calculations, suggesting the need for further development of the theory.

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Additional Information: The Supporting Information is available free of charge at: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c04063. Calculated optimized geometries, excited state transition energies and oscillator strengths, the resonance Raman potential energy surface fitting to calculate enhancements, additional resonance Raman spectra and key vibrational mode displacements, the extension to riboflavin FMN calculations (PDF)
Uncontrolled Keywords: physical and theoretical chemistry ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1600/1606
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Light and Energy
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Photonics and Quantum Science
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Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2021 00:11
Last Modified: 08 Mar 2024 12:32
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80347
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c04063

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