TITANIA: Model-Free Interpretation of Residual Dipolar Couplings in the Context of Organic Compounds.

Abstract

Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) become increasingly important as additional NMR parameters in the structure elucidation of organic compounds but are usually used in fitting procedures to discriminate between (computed) structures that are in accordance with RDCs and others that can be ruled out. Thus, the determination of configurations requires prior structural information. The direct use of RDCs as restraints to construct structures based on RDCs has only recently begun also in organic compounds. No protocol has been published though that uses the vector and dynamics information available in multialignment data sets directly for the joint determination of conformation and configuration of organic compounds. This is proposed in the current study. We show that by employing these data, even a flat or random start structure converges into the correctly configured structure when employing multiple alignment data sets in our iterative procedure. The requirements in terms of the number of RDCs and alignment media necessary are discussed in detail.