The title compound, C17H20N4O2, was prepared by the reaction between 1,3-di-amino-propane and isatoic anhydride in water. The carbonyl O atoms are involved in intra-molecular hydrogen bonding with the amine group and inter-molecular hydrogen bonding with an amide H atom of an adjacent mol-ecule. In the crystal, pairs of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link mol-ecules into inversion dimers and further N-H⋯...

We discovered that poly(vinylphenol) (PVPh) possesses an extremely low surface energy (15.7 mJ/m2) after a simple thermal treatment procedure, even lower than that of poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (22.0 mJ/m2) calculated on the basis of the two-liquid geometric method. Infrared analyses indicate that the intermolecular hydrogen bonding of PVPh decreases by converting the hydroxyl group into a free ...

A key step in cytochrome P450 catalysis includes the spin-state crossing from low spin to high spin upon substrate binding and subsequent reduction of the heme. Clearly, a weak perturbation in P450 enzymes triggers a spin-state crossing. However, the origin of the process whereby enzymes reorganize their active site through external perturbations, such as hydrogen bonding, is still poorly under...

The synergy of aromatic gain and hydrogen bonding in a supramolecular polymer is explored. Partially aromatic bis(squaramide) bolaamphiphiles were designed to self-assemble through a combination of hydrophobic, hydrogen-bonding, and aromatic effects into stiff, high-aspect-ratio fibers. UV and IR spectroscopy show electron delocalization and geometric changes within the squaramide ring indicati...

Based on an Atoms-in-Molecules (AIM) analysis, Matta et al. recently claimed evidence for the existence of hydrogen-hydrogen bonding between ortho-hydrogen atoms, pointing towards each other from adjacent phenyl groups in planar biphenyl. This AIM result is opposed to the classical view that nonbonded steric repulsion between the ortho-hydrogen atoms is responsible for the higher energy of the ...

in this paper, the hydrogen bonding (hb) effects on the nmr chemical shifts of selected atoms in serineand serine-nh2o complexes (from one to ten water molecules) have been investigated with quantummechanical calculations of the 15n and 13c tensors. interaction with water molecules causes importantchanges in geometry and electronic structure of serine.for the compound studied, the most importan...