Search results for "Intermolecular interaction"

A polar/π model of interactions explains face-to-face stacked quinoid rings: a case study of the crystal of potassium hydrogen chloranilate dihydrate

2015

International audience; The nature of interactions between face-to-face staggered stacked quinoid rings with pi-systems, observed with a short inter-ring centroid. centroid distance, is analyzed by experimental and theoretical methods. Charge density studies based on X-ray diffraction and DFT calculations, complemented by impedance spectroscopy, were employed to define the electronic and structural characteristics of the quinoid rings responsible for their interactions within the crystal packing. The crystal packing is mainly stabilized by strong electrostatic interactions between the K+ cation and the hydrogen chloranilate anion. The proximity and orientation of the stacked quinoid rings i…

Insights into the crystal packing of phosphorylporphyrins based on the topology of their intermolecular interaction energies

2014

Four metal complexes of 5,15-bis(diethoxyphosphoryl)-10,20-diphenylporphyrin 1M (M = Cd(II), Ni(II), Pd(II), and Pt(II)) were synthesized and crystallographically characterized. The crystal organization patterns were analyzed using DFT (B97-D3/def2-SVP) calculations of the intermolecular interaction energies between complexes in the crystals. For the systematic analysis of crystal packing, the calculations were extended to previously reported compounds 1M (M = H2, Cu(II), and Zn(II)). Quantitative analysis of the interaction energies shows the essential role of weak intermolecular interactions, such as C-H⋯O, C-H⋯π and M⋯π, in the formation of basic structural motifs and their organization …

Micelles of Polysoaps:  The Role of Bridging Interactions

1996

Polysoaps, hydrophilic polymers incorporating amphiphilic monomers, form intrachain micelles in aqueous media. The micelles are similar to those formed by monomeric amphiphiles but are also endowed with a swollen, starlike corona formed by the spacer chains joining the amphiphiles. Long polysoaps form strings comprising many intrachain micelles. Exchange of amphiphiles between such micelles may give rise to bridging attraction, resulting in the adoption of a collapsed configuration in which the swollen micelles are close packed into a spherical globule. Upon addition of free amphiphiles, this structure unravels in a highly nonlinear fashion. Titration by surfactants, and the resulting swell…

Visualizing Solubilization by a Realistic Particle Model in Chemistry Education

2019

An application for the visualization of the mixing process of two different types of structureless interacting particles is presented. The application allows to demonstrate on a qualitative basis, as well as by quantitatively monitoring the time evolution of the fractions of aggregates of different sizes, that the formation of a homogeneous mixture is the result of favorable solute-solvent interactions as well as by temperature. It is suggested that, along with the use of suitable macroscopic examples, visualizations by the present application are useful in elucidating concepts related to miscibility/solubility. The application is based on a two-dimensional realistic dynamic model where ato…

A noncentrosymmetric crystal structure of a zwitterionic compound, pyridinium 5,7-dihydro-5,7-dioxo-6H-cyclopenta[b]pyridin-6-ylide, realized by weak…

2009

Abstract Crystal structures of pyridinium 1,3-dihydro-1,3-dioxo-2 H -inden-2-ylide (PI) of a zwitterionic molecule and its nitrogen substituted compounds, 4N-PI and 5N-PI, were solved with X-ray diffraction analyses. Whereas PI and 5N-PI showed centrosymmetric crystal structures, 4N-PI demonstrated a noncentrosymmetric crystal structure where all the molecules orient to almost the same direction. To elucidate the stability of such a polarized structure, we examined interatomic close contacts among the nearest neighbor molecules in the crystals and calculated intermolecular interaction energies with relation to those contacts. As a result, the noncentrosymmetric crystal structure of 4N-PI tu…

Similarities and differences between crystal and enzyme environmental effects on the electron density of drug molecules

2021

Abstract The crystal interaction density is generally assumed to be a suitable measure of the polarization of a low‐molecular weight ligand inside an enzyme, but this approximation has seldomly been tested and has never been quantified before. In this study, we compare the crystal interaction density and the interaction electrostatic potential for a model compound of loxistatin acid (E64c) with those inside cathepsin B, in solution, and in vacuum. We apply QM/MM calculations and experimental quantum crystallography to show that the crystal interaction density is indeed very similar to the enzyme interaction density. Less than 0.1 e are shifted between these two environments in total. Howeve…

Controlling Molecular Self-Assembly on an Insulating Surface by Rationally Designing an Efficient Anchor Functionality That Maintains Structural Flex…

2013

Molecular self-assembly on surfaces is dictated by the delicate balance between intermolecular and molecule-surface interactions. For many insulating surfaces, however, the molecule-surface interactions are weak and rather unspecific. Enhancing these interactions, on the other hand, often puts a severe limit on the achievable structural variety. To grasp the full potential of molecular self-assembly on these application-relevant substrates, therefore, requires strategies for anchoring the molecular building blocks toward the surface in a way that maintains flexibility in terms of intermolecular interaction and relative molecule orientation. Here, we report the design of a site-specific anch…

Intermolecular interactions in metastable protein solutions.

2011

Systematic Modulation of the Supramolecular Gelation Properties of Bile Acid Alkyl Amides

2018

The self-assembly properties of nine low-molecular-weight gelators (LMWGs) based on bile acid alkyl amides were studied in detail. Based on the results, the number of hydroxyl groups attached to the steroidal backbone plays a major role in the gelation, although the nature of the aliphatic side chain also modulates the gelation abilities. Of the 50 gel systems studied, 35 are based on lithocholic acid and 15 on cholic acid derivatives. The deoxycholic acid derivatives did not form any gels. The gelation occurred primarily in aromatic solvents and the gels manifested typical fibrous or spherical morphologies. The 13C cross-polarized magic angle spinning (CPMAS) NMR spectra measured on the cr…

Interactions of α-tocopherol with biomembrane models: Binding to dry lecithin reversed micelles

2005

Abstract The state of α-tocopherol (Vitamin E) in solutions of dry lecithin reversed micelles dispersed in an apolar medium has been investigated as a function of the Vitamin E to surfactant molar ratio (RVE) at fixed surfactant concentration by FT-IR, 1H NMR and SAXS with the aim to emphasize the role played by anisotropic intermolecular interactions and confinement effects as driving forces of its partitioning between apolar bulk solvent and polar nanodomains and of mutual Vitamin E/reversed micelle effects. It has been found that its binding strength to reversed micelles, triggered by steric and orientational constrains, is mainly regulated by specific interactions between the hydrophili…