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On the other hand, the increase in temperature decreases the inter-molecular interaction (hydrogen bonding) between water molecules, which lessens the squeezing-out effect for nonpolar solutes. At the supercritcal state, water exhibits an antiaqueous property. For example, water at high temperatures exhibits considerable, and sometimes complete, miscibility with nonpolar compounds. 

The molecular interactions (hydrogen bonding between starch chains) after cooling of the gelatinized starch paste have been called retrogradation (Hoover, 2001). During retrogradation. 

A rich domain emerges from the combination of polymer chemistry with supramolecular chemistry, defining a supramolecular polymer chemistry [23, 24]. It involves the designed manipulation of molecular interactions (hydrogen bonding, donor-acceptor effects, etc.) and recognition processes to generate main-chain (or side-chain)... 

The reaction is relatively fast when the chains take the conformation of statistical coils, but is much slower in solvents (dimethylformamide, dimethylamine, etc.) favoring their helical conformation with strong molecular interactions (hydrogen bonds) stabilizing such a structure. 

One of the most popular applications of molecular rotors is the quantitative determination of solvent viscosity (for some examples, see references [18, 23-27] and Sect. 5). Viscosity refers to a bulk property, but molecular rotors change their behavior under the influence of the solvent on the molecular scale. Most commonly, the diffusivity of a fluorophore is related to bulk viscosity through the Debye-Stokes-Einstein relationship where the diffusion constant D is inversely proportional to bulk viscosity rj. Established techniques such as fluorescent recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) and fluorescence anisotropy build on the diffusivity of a fluorophore. However, the relationship between diffusivity on a molecular scale and bulk viscosity is always an approximation, because it does not consider molecular-scale effects such as size differences between fluorophore and solvent, electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bond formation, or a possible anisotropy of the environment. Nonetheless, approaches exist to resolve this conflict between bulk viscosity and apparent microviscosity at the molecular scale. Forster and Hoffmann examined some triphenylamine dyes with TICT characteristics. These dyes are characterized by radiationless relaxation from the TICT state. Forster and Hoffmann found a power-law relationship between quantum yield and solvent viscosity both analytically and experimentally [28]. For a quantitative derivation of the power-law relationship, Forster and Hoffmann define the solvent s microfriction k by applying the Debye-Stokes-Einstein diffusion model (2)... 

Molecular imprinting can be accomplished in two ways (a), the self assembly approach and (b), the preorganisation approach3. The first involves host guest complexes produced from weak intermolecular interactions (such as ionic or hydrophobic interaction, hydrogen bonding) between the analyte molecule and the functional monomers. The self assembled complexes are spontaneously formed in the liquid phase and are sterically fixed by polymerisation. After extraction of the analyte, vacant recognition sites specific for the imprint are established. Monomers used for self assembly are methacrylic acid, vinylpyridine and dimethylamino methacrylate. 

Finally, some molecules possess permanent charge separations, or dipoles, such as are found in water. The general case for the interaction of any positive dipole with a negative dipole is called dipole-dipole interaction. Hydrogen bonding can be thought of as a specific type of dipole-dipole interaction. A dipolar molecule like ammonia, NH3, is able to dissolve other polar molecules, like water, due to dipole-dipole interactions. In the case of NaCl in water, the dipole-dipole interactions are so strong as to break the intermolecnlar forces within the molecular solid. 

The directed manipulation of intermolecular interactions (hydrogen bonding, van der Waals forces, metal coordination) gives access to a supramolecular engineering of molecular assemblies and of polymers (see, for instance, [7.10-7.13, 7.44, 9.142, 9.157, 9.161-9.163]) through the design of instructed monomeric and polymeric species. It leads to the development of a supramolecular materials chemistry (see Section 9.8). 

The fundamental assumption underlying the molecular mechanics (MM) method is that the positions of the atoms of a molecule, ion, solvate, or crystal lattice are determined by forces between pairs of atoms (bonds, van der Waals interactions, hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions), and between groups of three (valence angles) and groups of four (torsional angles, planes) atoms (Fig. 2.1). 

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