On complementarity

J. Paldus and X. Li, Electron Correlation in Small Molecules Grafting Cl onto CC. In P. Surjan (Ed.) Correlation and Localization, Series in Topics in Current Chemistry, Vol. 203. (Springer, Berlin, 1999), pp. 1-20 X. Li and J. Paldus, Simultaneous Account of Dynamic and Nondynamic Correia,tions Based on Complementarity of Cl and CC Approaches. In M. R. Hoffmann and K. G. Dyall (Eds.) Low-Lying Potential Energy Surfaces, ACS Symposium Series No. 828 (ACS Books, Washington, 2002), pp. 10-30. 

Complementarity of interactions RNA structures depend heavily on complementary pairs of hydrogen-bond acceptors and donors for their secondary and tertiary structures. Protein secondary structures depeud on complanentary alignments of the backbone amide and carbonyl groups for hydrogeu bonding. Whereas the hydrophobic bonding and electrostatic interactions, which contributes to protein tertiary structures, do not rely on complementarity of the side chains. 

One final comment on complementarity. One can intuit that it is possible to create a host with a cavity that is selective to Li over Na by making the cavity small, such that Na will cause strain either host and guest occupying the same space or host will have to adjust to a high-energy confomiation to avoid occupying the same space as the... 

M. Randid, Symmetry properties of chemical graphs. VIII. On complementarity of isomerization models, Theor. Chim. Acta 67 (1985) 137-155. 

Simultaneous Account of Dynamic and Nondynamic Correlations Based on Complementarity of Cl and CC Approaches... 

The kinetic nature of the glass transition should be clear from the last chapter, where we first identified this transition by a change in the mechanical properties of a sample in very rapid deformations. In that chapter we concluded that molecular motion could simply not keep up with these high-frequency deformations. The complementarity between time and temperature enters the picture in this way. At lower temperatures the motion of molecules becomes more sluggish and equivalent effects on mechanical properties are produced by cooling as by frequency variations. We shall return to an examination of this time-temperature equivalency in Sec. 4.10. First, however, it will be profitable to consider the possibility of a thermodynamic description of the transition which occurs at Tg. 

How do the mutations identified by phage display improve binding specificity There is as yet no direct stmctural information on the phage-selected inhibitors however they can be modeled using data from the crystal structures of other Kunitz domains bound to serine proteinases. These studies lead to the conclusion that the mutations identified by phage display improve binding specificity by maximizing complementarity between the... 

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