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As part of an ongoing characterization of the intrinsic chemical properties of peptides, thermal hydrogen-deuterium exchange has been studied for a series of fast-atom-bombardment-generated protonated alkyldipeptides and related model compounds in the reaction with D2O, CH3OD, and ND3 in a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer. Despite the very large basicity difference between the dipeptides and the D2O and CH3OD exchange reagents, efficient exchange of all active hydrogen atoms occurs. From the kinetic data it appears that exchange of the amino, amide, and hydroxyl hydrogens proceeds with different efficiencies, which implies that the proton in thermal protonated dipeptides is immobile. The selectivity of the exchange at the different basic sites is governed by the nature of both the dipeptide and the exchange reagent. The results indicate that reversible proton transfer in the reaction complexes, which effectuates the deuterium incorporation, is assisted by formation of multiple hydrogen bonds between the reagents. Exchange is considered to proceed via the intermediacy of different competing intermediate complexes, each of which specifically leads to deuterium incorporation at different basic sites. The relative stabilization of the competing intermediate complexes can be related to the relative efficiencies of deuterium incorporation at different basic sites in the dipeptide. For all protonated dipeptides studied, the exchange in the reaction with ND3 proceeds with unit efficiency, whereas all active hydrogen atoms are exchanged equally efficiently. Evidently specific multiple hydrogen bond formations are far less important in the reversible proton transfers with the relatively basic ammonia, which allows effective randomization of all active hydrogen atoms in the reaction complexes.
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Gur, E.H., de Koning, L.J. & Nibbering, N.M.M. The bimolecular hydrogen-deuterium exchange behavior of protonated alkyl dipeptides in the gas phase. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 6, 466–477 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1016/1044-0305(95)00189-K
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