Hydrogen bonding—AIM

Keywords Hydrogen bond AIM electron density Laplacian of electron density water DNA ... 

The pair interaction potential of the hydrogen fluoride dimer represents an ideal case study for experimental and theoretical research in the field of weak intermolecular interactions and hydrogen-bonding, aiming at an improved understanding of HF vapor. 

Since these basic facts became known, a tremendous amount of research has been done on the structures and behaviors of these important substances. There has also been much research on the synthesis and study of other chain polyelectrolytes, containing hydrogen-bond-forming radicals (R) more-or-less like those in the natural nucleic acids. The primary aim of this research is, of course, to relate the behavior of the synthetic materials to the behavior of the natural ones. Okubo and Ise here present an excellent discussion on this research. 

The photodecomposition and thermodecomposition of nitromethane have been extensively studied as model systems in combustion, explosion and atmosphere pollution processes[l]. On another hand, nitromethane was selected as a model solvent in experiments aimed at examining non hydrogen-bonded solvent effects in a general acid-base theory of organic molecules [2.3]. This selection is based on the electronic and structural characteristics of nitromethane that has a high dielectric constant, and at the same time cannot form hydrogen bonds with solute molecules. 

The aim of this review is to focus on the hydrogen bonding, the acidity and basicity, complexing as well as some aspects of computational chemistry concerning the organo-element chemistry of germanium, tin and lead. This chapter is not exhaustive in scope, but rather consists of surveys of the most recent decade of work in this still developing area. This chapter emphasizes the synthesis, reactions and molecular structures of the class of... 

Further studies by the same authors have demonstrated that PFj acts a hydrogen bond-acceptor template in the assembly of several other interwoven structures. In an extensive study aimed at using a combination of hydrogenbonding motifs to self-assemble pseudorotaxanes into more complex structures it was discovered that PFj assists on the organization of the components that yield the final superstructure [74]. Particularly, it was found that this anion dictates the orientation of the two carboxylic acid groups of the [3]pseudorotaxanes 58 and 59 (see Schemes 27 and 28) when these groups are co-directional with respect to each other the formation of discrete hydrogen-bonded dimers is observed. 

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