Preface |
Brief History / Chapter 1: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
Who Discovered the Hydrogen Bond and When? / 1.2: |
Books on Hydrogen Bonding / 1.3: |
Nature and Properties / Chapter 2: |
A Simple Criterion and Some Definitions / 2.1: |
Different Categories / 2.2: |
Insight from Theory / 2.3: |
Charge Density Studies / 2.4: |
Geometry in Crystals / 2.5: |
The Vibrational Properties / 2.6: |
Electrostatic Potentials / 2.7: |
Hydrogen Bond Lengths vs. van der Waals Radii Sums / 2.8: |
What Makes the Hydrogen Bond Unique? / 2.9: |
Strong Hydrogen Bonds / Chapter 3: |
The Hydrogen Bifluoride Ion: a Prototype Strong Bond / 3.1: |
Other H- - -F Bonds / 3.3: |
O-H- - -O Bonds / 3.4: |
O-H- - -O Hydrogen Bonds / 3.5: |
The Hydrated Proton / 3.6: |
N-H- - -N Bonds / 3.7: |
N-H- - - N (O, ) Bonds / 3.9: |
Heteronuclear Bonds / 3.10: |
Moderate Hydrogen Bonds / Chapter 4: |
In Gas Phase Adducts / 4.1: |
Geometries from Crystal Structure Data / 4.3: |
Intramolecular Bonds / 4.4: |
Bond Acceptor Geometries / 4.5: |
Transition Metals as Hydrogen Bond Acceptors / 4.6: |
Weak Hyrdrogen Bonds / Chapter 5: |
C-H- - -B Bonds in Crystals / 5.1: |
C-F and C-Cl as Acceptors / 5.3: |
Forced C-H- - -O and C-H- - -N Contacts / 5.4: |
Cooperativity, Patterns, Graph Set Theory, Liquid Crystals / Chapter 6: |
Cooperativity / 6.1: |
Resonance Assisted Bonding / 6.2: |
Polarization Enhanced Bonding / 6.3: |
Bond Patterns in Crystal Structures / 6.4: |
Use of Graph-Set Theory / 6.5: |
Use of Bond Patterns to Synthesize New Compounds / 6.6: |
Bonding in Liquid Crystals / 6.7: |
Disorder, Proton Transfer, Isotope Effect, Ferroelectrics, Transitions / Chapter 7: |
Hydrogen Bond Disorder / 7.1: |
Proton Transfer / 7.2: |
The Isotope Effect / 7.3: |
Transitions in Ferroelectrics / 7.4: |
Water, Water Dimers, Ices, Hydrates / Chapter 8: |
Water: The Mysterious Molecule / 8.1: |
The Water Dimer: a Theoretical Guinea Pig / 8.2: |
Polymorphism of Solid H2O / 8.3: |
Water Coordination in Hydrates / 8.4: |
Water in Molecular Recognition / 8.5: |
Inclusion Compounds / Chapter 9: |
The Concept of Inclusion / 9.1: |
Clathrates / 9.2: |
The Clathrate Hydrates / 9.3: |
Hydrate Layer Compounds / 9.4: |
The Cyclodextrin Inclusion Compounds / 9.5: |
Hydrogen Bonding in Biological Molecules / Chapter 10: |
The Importance of Hydrogen Bonds / 10.1: |
In Protein Structures / 10.2: |
Low Barrier Hydrogen Bonds and Enzyme Catalysis / 10.3: |
Hydrogen Bonding in Nucleic Acid Structures / 10.4: |
In Polysaccharides / 10.5: |
Water in Biological Macrocmolecules / 10.6: |
Methods / Chapter 11: |
Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy / 11.1: |
Gas-Phase Microwave Rotational Spectroscopy / 11.3: |
Neutron Inelastic Scattering / 11.4: |
NMR Spectroscopy / 11.5: |
Deuteron Quadrupole Coupling / 11.6: |
Diffraction Methods: Neutron and X-Ray / 11.7: |
Computational Chemistry / 11.8: |
Thermochemical Methods / 11.9: |
Structural Data Bases / Appendix I: |
Effect of Thermal Motion on Observed Bond Lengths / Appendix II: |
Distance Dependence of Energy Contributions / Appendix III: |
Some Useful Conversions / Appendix IV: |
References |
Index |
Preface |
Brief History / Chapter 1: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
Who Discovered the Hydrogen Bond and When? / 1.2: |
Books on Hydrogen Bonding / 1.3: |
Nature and Properties / Chapter 2: |