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| Sophie Creuzet, TeresaM. Iranda, Jean-M Arc Ducruet | Requires cookie* | | | Title
| Comparison of Experimental and Calculated Hydrogen Bonding Properties of Some Urea and Triazine Inhibitors of Photosystem II  | | | | Abstract
| Previous studies o f structure/activity relationships o f photosystem II inhibitors, including com parisons o f their inhibitory power in herbicide-resistant and susceptible chloroplasts, have led to predict the role o f hydrogen bonding, associated to hydrophobicity, in the binding onto the Qb site. The crystallographic structures o f bacterial reaction centers now allow these bonds to be identified. In order to be able to understand the binding o f various herbicides and the effects o f resistance mutations within the Q B site, a reliable estimation o f hydrogen bonding strengths is needed. We show here, by calculating interactions with model com pounds, con trolled by physicochemical measurements, that the hydrogen bonding properties o f the C = X nucleophilic moiety present in most PS II inhibitors are different for triazines as compared to urea or amide derivatives. Semiempirical methods (AM 1) fail to reproduce the energies o f hy drogen bonds between a triazine ring nitrogen and a phenolic proton. An empirical method (SI BFA), designed to reproduce interaction energies, has been adapted with the aim o f calculat ing the binding energies o f various herbicides with models o f the Q B site. | | | |
Reference
| Z. Naturforsch. 48c, 179 (1993); received November 12 1992 | | | |
Published
| 1993 | | | |
Keywords
| Herbicide, Herbicide Resistance, Hydrogen Bonding, M olecular Calculation, Photosystem II | | | |
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