Molecular Tailoring Approach for the Estimation of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond Energy

Hydrogen bonds (HBs) play a crucial role in many physicochemical and biological processes. Theoretical methods can reliably estimate the intermolecular HB energies. However, the methods for the quantification of intramolecular HB (IHB) energy available in the literature are mostly empirical or indirect and limited only to evaluating the energy of a single HB. During the past decade, the authors have developed a direct procedure for the IHB energy estimation based on the molecular tailoring approach (MTA), a fragmentation method. This MTA-based method can yield a reliable estimate of individual IHB energy in a system containing multiple H-bonds. After explaining and illustrating the methodology of MTA, we present its use for the IHB energy estimation in molecules and clusters. We also discuss the use of this method by other researchers as a standard, state-of-the-art method for estimating IHB energy as well as those of other noncovalent interactions.     

DFT和热力学研究氢键协同效应及对关联1H NMR的影响

用DFT方法在B3LYP／6—311 G(d,p)水平下研究了甲醇线性和环状分子簇．对于不同大小的分子簇之间定义了协同因子,计算得到的协同因子可以验证氢键的强协同效应,环状分子簇之间的协同效应远远大于线性分子簇,做为理论验证和比较,热力学模型分别采用含氢键缔合的格子流体状态方程(LFHB),以及含氢键协同效应的LFHB,关联醇一惰性体系的^1H核磁共振化学位移．考虑协同效应的关联结果优于原始的LFHB,比较量子化学计算的和热力学模型中采用的协同因子,认为甲醇和乙醇在溶液中更可能大部分以线性缔合形式存在。     

脱铁伴清蛋白两结合位点不同酪氨酸氢键的特性

The interaction of gallium（Ⅲ） with the ligands containing phenolic group（s）, such as salicylic acid, 8-hydroxyquinoline, N,N＇-bis（2-hydroxybenzyl）ethylenediamine-N,N＇diacetic acid （HBED）, N,N＇-ethylenebis[2-（o- hydroxyphenyl）glycine （EHPG）, and ovotransferrin, was studied, respectively, by means of fluorescence in 0.01 mol/L Hepes at pH 7.4 and room temperature. Fluorescence intensity showed an increase when gallium（Ⅲ） was bound to 8-hydroxyquinoline and HBED. In contrast, it was decreased with the interaction of gallium（Ⅲ） with salicylic acid and EHPG. At pH 7.4, there was N…H-O type intramolecular hydrogen bond in the former, and the latter existed O…H-O type intramolecular hydrogen bond. Fluorescence titration of apoovotransferrin with gallium（Ⅲ） displayed that the fluorescence intensity was decreased at the N-terminal binding site, while enhanced at the C-terminal binding site. It can account for the O…H-O type intramolecular hydrogen bonds for the phenolic groups of Tyr92 and Tyr191 residues at the N-terminal binding site. And there are N…H-O type intramolecular hydrogen bonds for Tyr431 and Tyr524 residues at the C-terminal binding site. In addition, under the same conditions, the conditional binding constant of gallium（Ⅲ） with EHPG or HBED determined by fluorescence method is lg KGa-EHPG=19.18 or lg KGa-HBED= 19.08.     

DFT和热力学研究氢键协同效应及对关联1H NMR的影响

用DFT方法在B3LYP/6-311＋＋G (d,p)水平下研究了甲醇线性和环状分子簇. 对于不同大小的分子簇之间定义了协同因子. 计算得到的协同因子可以验证氢键的强协同效应, 环状分子簇之间的协同效应远远大于线性分子簇. 做为理论验证和比较, 热力学模型分别采用含氢键缔合的格子流体状态方程(LFHB), 以及含氢键协同效应的LFHB, 关联醇-惰性体系的¹H核磁共振化学位移. 考虑协同效应的关联结果优于原始的LFHB. 比较量子化学计算的和热力学模型中采用的协同因子, 认为甲醇和乙醇在溶液中更可能大部分以线性缔合形式存在.     

A Facile Method to Prepare Double‐Layer Isoporous Hollow Fiber Membrane by In Situ Hydrogen Bond Formation in the Spinning Line

A double‐layer hollow fiber is fabricated where an isoporous surface of polystyrene‐block‐poly(4‐vinylpyridine) is fixed on a support layer by co‐extrusion. Due to the sulfonation of the support layer material, delamination of the two layers is suppressed without increasing the number of subsequent processing steps for isoporous composite membrane formation. Electron microscope‐energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy images unveil the existence of a high sulfur concentration in the interfacial region by which in‐process H‐bond formation between the layers is evidenced. For the very first time, our study reports a facile method to fabricate a sturdy isoporous double‐layer hollow fiber.

     

A TD‐DFT Study on the Effect of Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding on the Photophysical Properties of N‐Methyl‐1,8‐naphthalimide

The effect of intermolecular hydrogen bonding on the photophysical properties of N‐methyl‐1,8‐naphthalimide ( 2 ) has been investigated by time‐dependent density functional theory (TD‐DFT) method. The UV and IR spectra of 2 monomer and its hydrogen‐bonded complexes formed with 2,2,2‐trifluoroethanol (TFE) 2 +TFE and 2 +2TFE have been calculated, which confirm the presence of intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions between the carbonyl groups of the aromatic imide and the hydroxyl group of the polyfluorinated alcohol. The absorption and fluorescence intensities going from 2 monomer via hydrogen‐bonded complex 2 +TFE to 2 +2TFE were found to be gradually enhanced with the wavelength gradually red‐shifted. The enhancements of the fluorescence intensities from 2 monomer to hydrogen‐bonded complexes 2 +TFE and 2 +2TFE were attributed to the decrease of the intersystem crossing (ISC) efficiency from the first excited singlet state S₁ ¹(ππ*) to the second excited triplet state T₂ ³(nπ*), whose energy was increased relative to its ground state due to the intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions.     

Revealing the physical nature and the strength of charge‐inverted hydrogen bonds by SAPT(DFT), MP2, SCS‐MP2, MP2C,and CCSD(T) methods

The physical nature of charge‐inverted hydrogen bonds in H₃XH YH₃ (X = Si, Ge; Y = Al, Ga) dimer systems is studied by means of the SAPT(DFT)‐based decomposition of interaction energies and supermolecular interaction energies based on MP2, SCS‐MP2, MP2C, and CCSD(T) methods utilizing dimer‐centered aug‐cc‐pCVnZ (n = D, T, Q) basis sets as well as an extrapolation to the complete basis set limit. It is revealed that charge‐inverted hydrogen bonds are inductive in nature, although dispersion is also important. Computed interaction energies form the following relation: . It is confirmed that the aug‐cc‐pCVDZ basis set performs poorly and that very accurate values of interaction and dispersion energies require basis sets of at least quadrupole‐ζ quality. Considerably large binding energies suggest potential usefulness of charge‐inverted hydrogen bonds as an important structural motif in molecular binding. Terminology applying to σ‐ and π‐hole interactions as well as to triel and tetrel bonds is discussed. According to this new terminology the charge‐inverted hydrogen bond would become the first described case of a hydride‐triel bond. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A New Amperometric Biosensor Based on HRP/Nano-Au/L-Cysteine/Poly（o-Aminobenzoic acid）-Membrane-Modified Platinum Electrode for the Determination of Hydrogen Peroxide

The third generation amperometric biosensor for the determination of hydrogen peroxide （H2O2） has been described. For the fabrication of biosensor, o-aminobenzoic acid （oABA） was first electropolymerized on the surface of platinum （Pt） electrode as an electrostatic repulsion layer to reject interferences. Horseradish peroxidase （HRP） absorbed by nano-scaled particulate gold （nano-Au） was immobilized on the electrode modified with polymerized o-aminobenzoic acid （poABA） with L-cysteine as a linker to prepare a biosensor for the detection of H2O2. Amperometric detection of H2O2 was realized at a potential of ＋20 mV versus SCE. The resulting biosensor exhibited fast response, excellent reproducibility and sensibility, expanded linear range and low interferences. Temperature and pH dependence and stability of the sensor were investigated. The optimal sensor gave a linear response in the range of 2.99×10^-6 to 3.55×10^-3 mol·L^-1 to H2O2 with a sensibility of 0.0177 A·L^-1·mol^-1 and a detection limit （S/N = 3） of 4.3×10^-7 mol·L^-1. The biosensor demonstrated a 95% response within less than 10 s.     

Hydrogen bonding and π–π interactions in the cocrystal salt [Fe(bpe)2(H2O)4](TCEP)2·2(bpe) [bpe is trans‐1,2‐bis(pyridin‐4‐yl)ethene and TCEP is 1,1,3,3‐tetracyano‐2‐ethoxypropenide]

The cocrystal salt tetraaquabis[trans‐1,2‐bis(pyridin‐4‐yl)ethene‐κN]iron(II) bis(1,1,3,3‐tetracyano‐2‐ethoxypropenide)–trans‐1,2‐bis(pyridin‐4‐yl)ethene (1/2), [Fe(C₁₂H₁₀N₂)₂(H₂O)₄](C₉H₅N₄O)₂·2C₁₂H₁₀N₂, is a rare example of a mononuclear Fe^II compound with trans‐1,2‐bis(pyridin‐4‐yl)ethane (bpe) ligands. The complex cation resides on a crystallographically imposed inversion center and exhibits a tetragonally distorted octahedral coordination geometry. Both the symmetry‐independent bpe ligand and the cocrystallized bpe molecule are essentially planar. The 1,1,3,3‐tetracyano‐2‐ethoxypropenide counter‐ion is nonplanar and the bond lengths are consistant with significant electron delocalization. The extended structure exhibits an extensive O—H…N hydrogen‐bonding network with layers of complex cations joined by the cocrystallized bpe. Both the coordinated and the cocrystallized bpe are involved in π–π interactions. Hirshfeld and fingerprint plots reveal the important intermolecular interactions. Density functional theory was used to estimate the strengths of the hydrogen‐bonding and π–π interactions, and suggest that the O—H…N hydrogen bonds enhance the strength of the π‐interactions by increasing the polarization of the pyridine rings.