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A Neutral Zwitterionic Molecular Solid

El-Ghayoury, Abdelkrim
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Meziere, Cecile
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Simonov, Sergey
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2010
Chemistry - A European Journal

We report on the acid ethylenedithiotetrathiafulvaleneamidoglycine (EDT-TTF-CO-NH-CH2-CO2H; 1; EDT-TTF=ethylenedithiotetrathiafulvalene) and the 1:1 adduct [(EDT-TTF)(center dot+) -CO-NH-CH2-(CO2H)(-)][(EDT-TTF)-CO-NH-CH2-(CO2H)]center dot CH3OH (2), a new type of hydrogen-bonded, 1:1 acid/zwitterion hybrid embrace of redox peptidics into a two-dimensional architecture, an example of a system deliberately fashioned so that oxidation of pi-conjugated cores toward the radical-cation form would interfere with the activity of the appended ionizable residues in the presence of a templating base during crystal growth. First-principles calculations demonstrate that, notwithstanding preconceived ideas, a metallic state is more stable than the hole-localized alternatives for a neat 1:1 neutral acid/zwitterion hybrid. The inhomogeneous Coulomb field associated with proton-shared, interstacks O-H center dot center dot center dot O hydrogen bonds between the ionizable residues distributed on both sides of the two-dimensional pi-conjugated framework leads, however, to a weak hole localization responsible for the activated but high conductivity of 1 S cm(-1). This situation is reminiscent of the role of the environment on electron transfer in tetraheme cytochrome c, in which the protonation state of a heme propionate becomes paramount, or ion-gated transport phenomena in biology. These observations open rather intriguing opportunities for the construction of electronic systems at the interface of chemistry and biology.

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DOI
10.1002/chem.201001875
Web of Science ID

WOS:000286289700022

Author(s)
El-Ghayoury, Abdelkrim
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Meziere, Cecile
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Simonov, Sergey
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Zorina, Leokadiya
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Cobian, Manuel
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Canadell, Enric
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Rovira, Carme
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Nafradi, Balint
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Sipos, Balazs
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Forró, László  
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Date Issued

2010

Published in
Chemistry - A European Journal
Volume

16

Start page

14051

End page

14059

Subjects

electron transport

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electronic structure

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peptides

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template synthesis

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zwitterions

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Intermolecular Hydrogen-Bonds

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Augmented-Wave Method

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Charge-Transfer

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Electron-Transfer

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Cytochrome-C

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Acid

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Conductors

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Dynamics

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State

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Heme

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