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- Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and mass spectrometry (MS) were utilized to study how different solvents (methanol, ethanol, propanol, and water) influence the formation of diketopiperazine (DKP) from the peptide FPGK at various temperatures.
- The study found that lower solvent polarity increases the reaction rate and results in a higher abundance of one isomer (the Phe-Pro isomer) as the reaction progresses.
- The analysis of data using a sequential unimolecular kinetics model revealed that the transition state thermodynamics align closely with the dielectric constants of the solvents, where a lower dielectric constant speeds up the reaction by lowering the enthalpic barrier.
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Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and mass spectrometry (MS) techniques were used to monitor diketopiperazine (DKP) formation from the peptide FPGK at multiple defined temperatures in methanol, ethanol, propanol, and water, with the motivation to study the effect of solvent polarity on spontaneous solution dissociation. The reaction rate increases with decreasing solvent polarity. The observed rates of → isomerization of Phe-Pro and the -Pro isomer dissociation result in the isomer growing in abundance relative to the isomer throughout the reaction in all solvents. Analysis of rate constants derived from the data using a sequential unimolecular kinetics model that includes hidden intermediate states yields transition state thermodynamic values for both → isomerization of Phe-Pro and dissociation. The measured thermochemistry appears to be closely correlated with these solvents' dielectric constants: a lower solvent dielectric constant accelerates the reaction by reducing the enthalpic barrier, albeit with slight entropic restriction.
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