Tracking the chiral recognition of adsorbed dipeptides at the single-molecule level

Magalí Lingenfelder*, Giulia Tomba, Giovanni Costantini, Lucio Colombi Ciacchi, Alessandro De Vita, Klaus Kern

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Abstract

Lights, camera, action! The general mechanism of biomolecular recognition introduced by Pauling more than 50 years ago has now been brought to the movie screen (see still frame; D: D-Phe-D-Phe, L: L-Phe-L-Phe). With STM movies, the chiral-recognition process of individual adsorbed di-phenylalanine molecules is followed to illustrate the dynamic induced-fit mechanism at the single-molecule level.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4492-4495
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume46
Issue number24
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Keywords

  • Chirality
  • Density functional calculations
  • Molecular recognition
  • Peptides
  • Scanning probe microscopy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry

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