New class of salts containing different amino acids - an overview

Author(s)
G.S. Tonoyan, Gerald Giester, A.M. Petrosyan
Abstract

A new class of amino acids salts containing different amino acids has recently been
discovered: the present review reports about 69 such salts of eleven distinct types. The 38 salts crystallize in noncentrosymmetric space groups displaying nonlinear optical properties, 26 of them have polar symmetry and are potential pyro- or ferroelectrics. Single crystals of all these 69 compounds were obtained and their crystal structures were determined. 47 of them contain a dimeric cation of the [A(1)+···A(2)] type, where A(1) and A(2) are different amino acids. The following 13 dimeric cations have been revealed: (Gly+···Sar), (Gly+···DMG), (Sar+···DMG), (DMG+···Sar), (Sar+···Bet), (Bet+···Sar), (DMG+···Bet), (Bet+···DMG), (L-Pro+···Sar), (β-Ala+···L-Pro), (β-Ala+···Sar), (β-Ala+···DMG) and (β-Ala+···Bet). Among representatives of this class a new type of polymorphism was discovered. Some iodides among salts containing different amino acids can be used in medicine as regulators of thyroxine synthesis in the body.

Organisation(s)
Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography
External organisation(s)
National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
Journal
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume
2924
Pages
1-23
No. of pages
23
ISSN
1742-6588
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2924/1/012007
Publication date
2024
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
105113 Crystallography, 105116 Mineralogy
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Physics and Astronomy
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/6461f55e-4656-40ae-bb8d-24d33d671998