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Applications of terahertz spectroscopy in biosystemsDavid F Plusquellic
Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 8443, USA
Chemphyschem 8:2412-31. 2007..As such, THz spectroscopy has enhanced and extended the accessibility to intermolecular forces, length- and timescales important in biological structure and activity...
The microwave spectrum of a two-top peptide mimetic: the N-acetyl alanine methyl ester moleculeDavid F Plusquellic
Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 8441, USA
J Chem Phys 125:104312. 2006..DFT is found to consistently overestimate the overall molecular size while MP2 methods give structures that are undersized. Structural discrepancies of similar magnitude are evident in previous DFT results of crystalline peptides...
Probing the electronic structure of peptide bonds using methyl groupsDavid F Plusquellic
Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
J Phys Chem A 111:7391-7. 2007..A quasilinear correlation exists between the barriers to internal rotation of attached methyl groups and the relative importance of the two principal resonance structures that contribute to the peptide bond...
Distinguishing tunneling pathways for two chiral conformer pairs of 1,3-propanediol from the microwave spectrumD F Plusquellic
Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 8441, USA
J Phys Chem A 113:12911-8. 2009..Accurate dipole moment components have also been obtained from Stark effect measurements for the lowest-energy form...
State-resolved THz spectroscopy and dynamics of crystalline peptide-water systemsZeeshan Ahmed
Biophysics Group, Optical Technology Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Faraday Discuss 150:175-92; discussion 257-92. 2011..The vibrational free energies are shown to make significant contributions to the overall energy balance of the dehydration processes...
Chirped-pulse terahertz spectroscopy for broadband trace gas sensingEyal Gerecht
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Opt Express 19:8973-84. 2011..Such a system can be configured into a portable, easy to use, and relatively inexpensive sensing platform...
Rotationally resolved C2 symmetric conformers of bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)methane: prototypical examples of excitonic coupling in the S1 and S2 electronic statesShin Grace Chou
Biophysics Group, Optical Technology Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 8441, USA
J Phys Chem A 115:9643-52. 2011..W.; Zwier, T. S.; Plusquellic, D. F. J. Chem. Phys. 2008, 129, 224305]. The in-plane angles are, however, rotated by 14 and 18° relative to DPM and, in part, explain the smaller than expected exciton splittings of these two conformers...
