Donor acceptor isomerism, hydrogen bonds

Furthermore, it is often possible to extract from the structural analysis of solid solvates a significant information on solvation patterns and their relation to induced structural polymorphism. An interesting illustration has been provided by crystal structure determinations of solvated 2,4-dichloro-5-carboxy-benzsulfonimide (5)35). This compound contains a large number of polar functions and potential donors and acceptors of hydrogen bonds and appears to have only a few conformational degrees of freedom associated with soft modes of torsional isomerism. It co-crystallizes with a variety of solvents in different structural forms. The observed modes of crystallization and molecular conformation of the host compound were found to be primarily dependent on the nature of the solvent environment. Thus, from protic media such as water and wet acetic acid layered structures were formed which resemble intercalation type compounds. 

C. Emmeluth, V. Dyczmons, and M. A. Suhm, Tuning the hydrogen bond donor/acceptor isomerism in jet cooled mixed dimers of aliphatic alcohols. J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 2906 2915... 

This study supports rate-determining H-OH bond breaking, which constrasts with previous reports that identified vinylidene isomerization as the key step in catalytic alkyne activation. The results indicate an enzyme-like mechanism is operative involving cooperative substrate activation by a metal center and proximal hydrogen bond donor/acceptors. In the future we will apply these principles to the activation of additional species. 

As points of reference, we will take two well-established hydrogen-bond donor/ acceptors, H2O and NH3. Their computed gas-phase Vs,max and Vs,mm are in Table 5, along with the same data for all of the molecules that have been discussed hydroxylamine (5), dimethylhydroxylamine (6), acetoxime (7), acetohydroxamic acid (8), and the isomeric pairs of oximes examined in the last section. Finally, we included an additional hydroxamic acid, 11, to see the effects of the strongly electron-withdrawing cyano group. 

Fig. 16A-D. Mechanical switching in rotaxanes. A Rotaxanes may exist in isomeric states by the movement of the ring component between dissymmetric sites on the string component. B A redox- or pH-switchable [2]rotaxane. While the cyclophane complexes the native benzidine site (spectrum, curve a), the reduced or protonated benzidine repels the cyclophane, causing it to move to the dioxybiphenylene site (spectrum, curve b). C An azobenzene-based switchable [2]rotaxane. The cyclodextrin ring complexes the azobenzene site in the trans-state, but it is repelled from the ds-azobenzene. The state of the system is measurable by circular dichroism (plot). D A pH-switchable rotaxane. When the amine on the string component is protonated, it complexes the crown ether ring by hydrogen-bonding interactions (40a). When the amine is deprotonated, however, the ring component moves to the bipyridinium unit, where it is complexed by n donor-acceptor interactions (40b). The plots in B and C are adapted from [67] and [69], respectively, with permission...

Indicator variables have also been used to account for other struetural features, e.g. for intramolecular hydrogen bonds, hydrogen bond donor and acceptor properties, ortho effects, cis/trans isomerism, different parent skeletons, different test models, etc. [22, 390]. Some precautions are necessary indicator variables should not describe a single compound (in this case the corresponding group contribution includes the experimental error of this one biological activity value) and the use of indicator variables should be justified from a theoretical point of view otherwise, continuous variables will be mixed with meaningless dummy variables, just to fit the data. 

We can also examine isomeric pairs of H-bonded complexes in which the roles of electron-pair donor and acceptor are reversed, and the mutual dipole orientations are therefore fundamentally altered. As an example, Fig. 5.4 shows the isomeric pair of complexes between ammonia and hydrogen fluoride,... 

These two isomeric forms of R2 are physically different because of the pairing of the nuclear spins on the hydrogen nnclei in the molecule. They can be physically separated by chromatography at very low temperatures. Generally to convert one isomer to the other requires a cleavage of the R-R bond. As with the hydrogen-isotope-exchange reactions, no external acceptor or donor is required. 

Disproportionation [1, 729-730]. In the absence of a hydrogen acceptor/donor, Raney nickel in boiling p-cymene brings about four different types of reactions on steroids oxidation of a 3-hydroxyl group, hydrogenation of a 5,6-double bond, isomerization of a 5)3-hydrogen to a 5a-hydrogen, and dimerization.453... 

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