hydrogen bonds between C-3 OH and the carboxyl. It seems difficult to invoke an intermolecular hydrogen bond without having some sort of added hydrophobic contribution in aqueous solution. This kind of effect has been observed in aliphatic carboxylic acids-larger aliphatic chains leading to stronger dimerization effects in aqueous solution.32 To describe the 13C NMR shifts as due to intermolecu...

The stability of self-assembling cyclic peptides (CPs) is attained by the intermolecular backbone-backbone hydrogen bonding (H-bonding) interactions. In addition to these H-bonding interactions, the self-assembled CPs are further stabilized by various intermolecular side chain-side chain interactions. This study investigates the role of amino acids on the structure and stability of self-assembl...

FTIR spectroscopic study of hydrogen bonding of 1,2-dihydroxybenzene (catechol) with proton acceptors has been carried out. The influence of intramolecular and intermolecular hydrogen bonds on the strengths of each other in complexes of 1,2-dihydroxybenzene with various proton acceptors has been analyzed. It was shown that intramolecular hydrogen bond is strengthened when 1,2-dihydroxybenzene i...

Two-dimensional diagonal electrophoresis has been used to characterize intermolecular disulfide bonding of membrane proteins from lenses of cataractous and normal patients. A component of approximately 18,000 daltons, linked via intermolecular disulfide bonding, was found in membrane preparations from 10 of 17 cataracts studied. In comparison, membrane from only 1 of 12 normal lenses of approxi...

we report herein the development of a highly sensitive colorimetric method for the detection of 4-hydroxy-2-mercapto-6-methylpyrimidine (mtu) which acts as an anti-thyroid drug utilizing citrate capped gold nanoparticles (au-nps). this thiol-containing molecule exhibits intriguing affinity with au-nps. the reactivity involves the displacement of the citrate shell by the thiolate shell followed ...

The first systematic electronic resolution study of a series of urea-based anion receptor complexes is presented. The hydrogen bonding in these multi-component systems was fully characterised using Bader's Quantum Theory of Atoms In Molecules (QTAIM) with the strength of the various N-H···anion hydrogen bonds quantified and the individual contributions of different intermolecular forces to the ...

N,N′-dibutyloxamide (1) was prepared by reacting diethyloxalate with n-butylamine in ethyl alcohol and characterized microanalytical techniques, FT-IR, NMR spectroscopy. Crystals suitable for single crystal X-ray diffraction (SC-XRD) were obtained from an acetonitrile solution of 1, the structural characterization showed presence intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions.

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...

Alanine tripeptide is a good model molecule to analyze a conformational distribution of an unstructured peptide backbone, to study a competition between the intraand intermolecular hydrogen-bonding, as well as the favourable solvation conditions. In our work, we used three different spectroscopic techniques, the Raman and infrared (IR) spectroscopy, and the vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) ...

Hierarchical in silico screening protocols against the agonist bound acetylcholine binding protein (AChBP) crystal structure were efficient in identifying novel chemotypes for AChBP and the human α7 receptor. Two hit structures were cocrystallized with AChBP revealing intermolecular cation-π interactions with loop C but lacking intermolecular hydrogen bonding. The compounds act as competitive α...