Issue 17, 2002
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Chemical Communications

Sodium cation complexation behavior of the heteroaromatic sidechains of histidine and tryptophan

Jiaxin Hu,a   Leonard J. Barbour,b   Riccardo Ferdania  and  George W. Gokel*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Division of Bioorganic Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry Program, and Department of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Ave., Campus Box 8103, St. Louis, MO, USA
E-mail: ggokel@molecool.wustl.edu

b Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

Abstract

Three of the four essential amino acids that have aromatic sidechains exhibit cation–π interactions with Na+ or K+; histidine does not and is shown here to be a sigma donor.

Graphical abstract: Sodium cation complexation behavior of the heteroaromatic sidechains of histidine and tryptophan

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B204321C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 Apr 2002
Accepted
02 Jul 2002
First published
05 Aug 2002

Chem. Commun., 2002, 1810-1811

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J. Hu, L. J. Barbour, R. Ferdani and G. W. Gokel, Chem. Commun., 2002, 1810 DOI: 10.1039/B204321C

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