Cooperative effect in hydrogen bonding

A. Karpfen, Cooperativity effects in hydrogen bonding. Adv. Chem. Phys. 123,469 510(2002). 

The small-molecule catalysts are covered in Chapters 5 and 6. In Chapter 5, Joshua Payette and Hisashi Yamamoto discuss the importance of polar Bronsted-acid-type catalysts as well as cooperative effects in hydrogen bonding catalysis. Chapter 6 by Mike Kotke and Peter Schreiner is then devoted to the single most popular small-molecule catalyst types, the thiourea catalysts. Chapter 6, the longest of all chapters, also provides an excellent overview of the history and development of the field of small-molecule hydrogen bond catalysis. 

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This additional interaction increases the strength of the primary DHB-bonding interaction between an alcoholic substrate and a catalyst nonadditively via the so-called cooperative effect in hydrogen bonding, 2i and could explain the well-known catalytic efficiency of bifunctional catalysts in the dehydrogenation of alcoholic substrates as an alternative path to H-H bond formation via metal-ligand cooperation as shown... 

Karpfen, A. Cooperative effects in hydrogen bonding. In Advances in Chemical Physics, John Wiley Sons, 2003, pp. 469-510. 

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