Hydrogen bonds are weak, generally intermolecular bonds, which hold much of soft matter together as well as the condensed phases of water, network liquids, and many ferroelectric crystals. The small mass of hydrogen means that they are inherently quantum mechanical in nature, and effects such as zero-point motion and tunneling must be considered, though all too often these effects are not consi...

It is well known that the existence of hydrogen bonds causes the vibrational spectra for the donor OH bond to broaden. Most times this broadening is attributed to inhomogeneous contributions, however in this paper, we studied the homogeneous contribution coming from the decay lifetime of the OH stretching excitation. Alkane diol, which possesses an OH(b)OH(f) (b and f stand for hydrogen bonded ...

In the structures of 5-(1-hydroxyethylidene)-1,3-dimethylpyrimidine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-trione, C8H10N2O4, (I), 1,3-dimethyl-5-[1-(propylamino)ethylidene]pyrimidine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-trione, C11H17N3O3, (II), and 5-[1-(2,2-dimethoxyethylamino)ethylidene]-1,3-dimethylpyrimidine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-trione, C12H19N3O5, (III), there are no direction-specific intermolecular interactions. The molecules in 5-[1...

in the present work, an extensive theoretical calculation study on histidine-histidine dipeptide in gas phase is done by using dft method with gaussian 98 program. through investigations on the molecular geometries of this molecule it is found that there is six rings in the molecules not two rings. the presence of four intramolecular hydrogen bonds is responsible for the formation of additional...

In the present work, an extensive theoretical calculation study on Histidine-Histidine dipeptide in gas phase is done by using DFT method with Gaussian 98 program. Through investigations on the molecular geometries of this molecule it is found that there is six rings in the molecules not two rings. The presence of four intramolecular hydrogen bonds is responsible for the formation of additional...

The conformation of dimethyl (R,R)-tartrate has been analyzed on the basis of the single crystal X-ray diffraction method as well as by ab-initio quantum chemical studies. The results showed that the extended T conformation containing two planar hydroxyester moieties predominates in both ab-initio and X-ray studies. The lowest energy conformer in ab-initio calculations has C2 symmetry and hydro...

Motivated by recent experimental work on Leu-Enkephalin modification with (4-Carboxamido)phenylalanine (Cpa), we perform MD simulations to study the structure-activity relationships of the [Cpa(1), Leu(5)]-enkephalin (Cpa-LE) for better understandings of the binding affinity in delta-selective opioid ligands. Recently, Tyr(1) substituted into Cpa(1) form was experimentally found to be the first...

In this study, we have determined the structure of a medicinally important molecule saligenin (2-hydroxybenzyl alcohol) using UV, IR and microwave absorption spectroscopy in a supersonic jet combined with ab initio calculations. The structure of the only observed conformer of saligenin corresponds to the global minimum on the conformational surface. The observed structure is stabilized by an in...