Abstract

Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is widely used to study protein-ligand, DNA-drug and/or protein-protein interactions but its application for small molecule complexation remains limited namely when the titration is performed in organic solvents. Compared to other dedicated spectroscopic techniques like nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared spectrometry or fluorimetry, which require a series of experiments to extract site-specific stoichiometry and affinity information, ITC provides in a single experiment a complete thermodynamic picture of the overall interaction mechanism. This chapter presents examples that support the high potential of ITC to probe interactions between small molecules in methanol, acetonitrile and methanol/water mixture on a Nano ITC Low Volume device (TA Instruments), with an emphasis on both simple (1:1) and more complex (1:1 and 1:2) interaction mechanisms.

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