Correction: Model molecules to classify CH⋯O hydrogen-bonds

Motion of Water Molecules and Hydrogen Bonds

The *H N M R spin-lattice relaxation time 7 \ , C1 NQR frequency VQ, and C1 NQR spin-lattice relaxation time 7 \ Q of [ Z n ( H 2 0 ) 6 ] [SnCl6] (zinc hexachlorostannate(IV) hexahydrate) have been measured at temperatures between 77 and 350 K. The NQR spin echo signal with Vq— 15.689 MHz at 77 K showed a positive temperature coefficient attributable to O H C l type H-bonds in the crystal. vQ a...

Hydrogen Bonds

Halogen bonds as orthogonal molecular interactions to hydrogen bonds.

Halogen bonds (X-bonds) are shown to be geometrically perpendicular to and energetically independent of hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) that share a common carbonyl oxygen acceptor. This orthogonal relationship is accommodated by the in-plane and out-of-plane electronegative potentials of the oxygen, which are differentially populated by H- and X-bonds. Furthermore, the local conformation of a peptide...

Contribution of hydrogen bonds to protein stability.

Our goal was to gain a better understanding of the contribution of the burial of polar groups and their hydrogen bonds to the conformational stability of proteins. We measured the change in stability, Δ(ΔG), for a series of hydrogen bonding mutants in four proteins: villin headpiece subdomain (VHP) containing 36 residues, a surface protein from Borrelia burgdorferi (VlsE) containing 341 residue...

Halogen bonds in biological molecules.

Short oxygen-halogen interactions have been known in organic chemistry since the 1950s and recently have been exploited in the design of supramolecular assemblies. The present survey of protein and nucleic acid structures reveals similar halogen bonds as potentially stabilizing inter- and intramolecular interactions that can affect ligand binding and molecular folding. A halogen bond in biomole...