H-donor-acceptor

Fig. 3.4. Experimental electrostatic potential map for the molecule of 9-methyladenine removed from the lattice. Note the marked difference between the electrostatic potentials around N-H (donor), (acceptor), and C-H (contours 0.05 e A-1) [218]...

Figure 13 Qualitative orbital model for the bonding between two EH fragments (E = C-Pb) in the H ground state via a conpbng of the unpaired electrons showing three different conformations, which lead to different isomeric forms of E2H2. (a) Syn-conformation of the E-H bonds which does not yield an energy minimnm stmcture. (b) Perpendicular orientation of the E-H bonds yielding structure A with two additional E-H donor-acceptor bonds, (c) Anticonformation of the E-H bonds yielding stmcture D2...

Davies and co-workers found that C-H donor/acceptor substituted carbenoids were capable of undergoing highly regioselective insertions. Thus, this strategy has been shown to be an aldol reaction equivalent, " Claisen condensation equivalent, Mannich reaction equivalent, and other important carbon-carbon bonding forming reaction equivalents. ... 

A fuzzier atom type participating in these descriptors has been defined that is pharmacologically relevant - the physicochemical type at near-neutral pH [24], which is one of the following seven binding property classes 1 = cation 2 = anion 3 = neutral hydrogen-bond donor 4 = neutral H-bond acceptor ... 

Prediction of various physicochemical properties such as solubihty, lipophhicity log P, pfQ, number of H-donor and acceptor atoms, number of rotatable bonds, polar surface area), drug-likeness, lead-likeness, and pharmacokinetic properties (ADMET profile). These properties can be applied as a filter in the prescreening step in virtual screening. 

H-Bond Acceptor-Donor (HBAD) Phenols Aromatic acids Aromatic amines Alpha H nitriles Iniines Monocarboj hc acids Other monoacids Peracids Alpha H nitros Azines Primary amines Secondary amines n-alcohols Other alcohols Ether alcohols... 

H-bond acceptor = H-bond donor = hydrogen atom = methyl group... 

H-bond donor/acceptors water, alcohols, carboxylic acids, amines, amides. 

The basic premise of Kamlet and Taft is that attractive solute—solvent interactions can be represented as a linear combination of a nonspecific dipolarity/polarizability effect and a specific H-bond formation effect, this latter being divisible into solute H-bond donor (HBD)-solvent H-bond acceptor (HB A) interactions and the converse possibility. To establish the dipolarity/polarizability scale, a solvent set was chosen with neither HBD nor HBA properties, and the spectral shifts of numerous solvatochromic dyes in these solvents were measured. These shifts, Av, were related to a dipolarity/polarizability parameter ir by Av = stt. The quantity ir was... 

Hydrogen bonds 12-30 0.3 Relative strength is proportional to the polarity of the H bond donor and H bond acceptor. More polar atoms form stronger H bonds. 

Hydrogen bonding in water is cooperative. That is, an H-bonded water molecule serving as an acceptor is a better H-bond donor than an unbonded molecule (and an HgO molecule serving as an H-bond donor becomes a better H-bond acceptor). Thus, participation in H bonding by HgO molecules is a phenomenon of mutual reinforcement. The H bonds between neighboring molecules are weak (23 kj/mol each) relative to the H—O covalent bonds (420 kj/mol). As a consequence, the hydrogen atoms are situated asymmetrically... 

Since equatorial attack is roughly antiperiplanar to two C-C bonds of the cyclic ketone, an extended hypothesis of antiperiplanar attack was proposed39. Since the incipient bond is intrinsically electron deficient, the attack of a nucleophile occurs anti to the best electron-donor bond, with the electron-donor order C—S > C —H > C —C > C—N > C—O. The transition state-stabilizing donor- acceptor interactions are assumed to be more important for the stereochemical outcome of nucleophilic addition reactions than the torsional and steric effects suggested by Felkin. 

However, an evaluation of the observed (overall) rate constants as a function of the water concentration (5 to 25 % in acetonitrile) does not yield constant values for ki and k2/k i. This result can be tentatively explained as due to changes in the water structure. Arnett et al. (1977) have found that bulk water has an H-bond acceptor capacity towards pyridinium ions about twice that of monomeric water and twice as strong an H-bond donor property towards pyridines. In the present case this should lead to an increase in the N — H stretching frequency in the o-complex (H-acceptor effect) and possibly to increased stabilization of the incipient triazene compound (H-donor effect). Water reduces the ion pairing of the diazonium salt and therefore increases its reactivity (Penton and Zollinger, 1971 Hashida et al., 1974 Juri and Bartsch, 1980), resulting in an increase in the rate of formation of the o-complex (ik ). 

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