New Insights into Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 February 2023) | Viewed by 8866
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Raman and IR spectra of chemical compounds; strong hydrogen bonds; tautomerism; anharmonicity; temperature dependence of vibrational spectra
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The importance of the hydrogen bond in chemistry and in the existence of life itself on Earth cannot be overestimated. It is suffice to recall its role in the formation of biological structures, ice, and liquid water. Notwithstanding the enormous efforts of academic researchers over the past 100 years, understanding the nature of the H-bond is still a serious problem. This is most relevant for strong hydrogen bonds in chemistry, examples of which are not as numerous as weak and medium bonds. The work of recent years on the role of quantum uncertainty of the proton on the H-bond has significantly advanced the solution of this problem, but the findings need experimental confirmation. This is especially true of the intramolecular hydrogen bond, where its characteristics can be influenced by the effects of electron density delocalization in adjacent aromatic rings as well as in cycles of which the intramolecular H-bond itself is a part. This Special Issue aims to provide selected articles on theoretical and experimental advances in the description of intramolecular hydrogen bonding and the role of aromatization effects in strong bond formation.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Experimental studies of various types of intramolecular H-bonds (O–H–O, N–H–O, etc.);
- Vibrational spectra of systems with intramolecular H-bonds at different temperatures;
- Dependence of the structural parameters of the intramolecular H-bond on the temperature and energy of the bond itself;
- Theoretical and experimental studies of the effects of aromatization in the structure of molecules on the characteristics of intramolecular H-bonds
Prof. Dr. Boris A. Kolesov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intramolecular hydrogen bonds
- bond formation
- vibrational spectra
- NMR spectra
- quantum-mechanical calculations
- aromatization
- structure
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