The contribution of solvent-solvent hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions to the attraction between methane molecules in water was investigated by comparing the potential of mean force (PMF) between two methane molecules in TIP4P water to those in a series of related liquids in which the solvent-solvent interactions were progressively turned off while keeping the solvent-solute intera...

Quantitative studies of the 1 : 1 complexes formed between perfluorohexyl iodide and a variety of hydrogen-bond acceptors have been used to probe the relationship between halogen bonding, hydrogen bonding, desolvation and the electrostatics of non-covalent interactions.

The behavior of an enediyne photoswitch is modulated with halogen bonding, coordinative bonding and hydrogen bonding.

A new semi-empirical force field has been developed to describe hydrogen-bonding interactions with a directional component. The hydrogen bond potential supports two alternative target angles, motivated by the observation that carbonyl hydrogen bond acceptor angles have a bimodal distribution. It has been implemented as a module for a macromolecular refinement package to be combined with other f...

In this work, hydrogen-bonding interactions between apigenin and water/ethanol were investigated from a theoretical perspective using quantum chemical calculations. Two conformations of apigenin molecule were considered in this work. The following results were found. (1) For apigenin monomer, the molecular structure is non-planar, and all of the hydrogen and oxygen atoms can be hydrogen-bonding...

A polarised-neutron diffraction experiment on [Co(NH3)5(H20)][Cr(CN)6] shows the unexpected features of spin populat ions on the cobalt ((0.5(2) e) and the "ammine" hydrogen (0.8(1) e in total) atoms. A local density approximation DV-Xa calculation on a unit that models the molecular geometry in the crystal returns features that are broadly in agreement with the experiment. The calculation also...

Data obtained by means of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy indicate that specific association of FMN occurs with AMP in aqueous solution, because much weaker interaction is observed with FMN of either GMP or CMP. A comparison of FAD with a 1:1 mixture of FMN and AMP suggests that the flavin is involved in an intramolecular hydrogen bonding with the adenine moiety of FAD. The temperature d...

Photochromic bis(thiazol-4-yl)maleimides, displaying enhanced binding affinity to complementary melamine receptors in their ring-closed switching state, have been developed and could pave the way to light-responsive supramolecular assemblies.