Hydrogen Bond Research, 1999

Seven review articles and original papers provide a representative overview of the research work done in hydrogen bond research at Austrian universities. The topics covered by the contributions are: state-of-the-art of understanding hydrogen bonding in biopolymers, recent NMR techniques for studying hydrogen bonding in aqueous solutions, intramolecular hydrogen bonding and proton transfer in a class of Mannich bases derived from substituted phenols and naphthols, competition between intramolecular hydrogen bonds in ortho-disubstituted phenols, molecular dynamic simulations on proton transfer in 5,8-dihydroxynaphthoquinone and in the formic acid dimer, accurate calculations of the intermolecular interactions in cyanoacetylen dimers, correlation between OH...O bond distances and OH stretching frequencies as derived from structural and spectroscopic data of minerals.

Hydrogen Bonding: From Small Clusters to Biopolymers.- NMR Techniques to Study Hydrogen Bonding in Aqueous Solution.- Mannich Bases as Model Compounds for Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding II. Structure and Properties in Solution.- Competitive Hydrogen Bonds and Conformational Equilibria in 2,6-Disubstituted Phenols Containing two Different Carbonyl Substituents.- The Dimer of Cyanodiacetylene: Stacking vs. Hydrogen Bonding.- Proton Motion and Proton Transfer in the Formic Acid Dimer and in 5,8-Dihydroxy-l,4-naphthoquinone: A PAW Molecular Dynamics Study.- Correlation of O-H Stretching Frequencies and O-H2O Hydrogen Bond Lengths in Minerals.