Hydrogen Bonding in Biological Structures

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. George A. Jeffrey, Professor Dr. Wolfram Saenger (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 574
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Hydrogen bonds are weak attractions, with a binding strength less than one-tenth that of a normal covalent bond. However, hydrogen bonds are of extraordinary importance; without them all wooden structures would collapse, cement would crumble, oceans would vaporize, and all living things would disintegrate into random dispersions of inert matter.
Hydrogen Bonding in Biological Structures is informative and eminently usable. It is, in a sense, a Rosetta stone that unlocks a wealth of information from the language of crystallography and makes it accessible to all scientists. (From a book review of Kenneth M. Harmon, Science 1992)

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Importance of Hydrogen Bonds....Pages 3-14
Definitions and Concepts....Pages 15-48
Experimental Studies of Hydrogen Bonding....Pages 49-70
Theoretical Calculations of Hydrogen-Bond Geometries....Pages 71-93
Effect of Hydrogen Bonding on Molecular Structure....Pages 94-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
The Importance of Small Molecule Structural Studies....Pages 103-110
Metrical Aspects of Two-Center Hydrogen Bonds....Pages 111-135
Metrical Aspects of Three- and Four-Center Hydrogen Bonds....Pages 136-146
Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds....Pages 147-155
Weak Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions Formed by C-H Groups as Donors and Aromatic Rings as Acceptors....Pages 156-160
Halides and Halogen Atoms as Hydrogen-Bond Acceptors....Pages 161-163
Hydrogen-Bond Acceptor Geometries....Pages 164-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-168
Hydrogen Bonding in Carbohydrates....Pages 169-219
Hydrogen Bonding in Amino Acids and Peptides: Predominance of Zwitterions....Pages 220-231
Purines and Pyrimidines....Pages 232-246
Base Pairing in the Purine and Pyrimidine Crystal Structures....Pages 247-268
Hydrogen Bonding in the Crystal Structures of the Nucleosides and Nucleotides....Pages 269-306
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
O-H···O Hydrogen Bonding in Crystal Structures of Cyclic and Linear Oligoamyloses: Cyclodextrins, Maltotriose, and Maltohexaose....Pages 309-350
Hydrogen Bonding in Proteins....Pages 351-393
The Role of Hydrogen Bonding in the Structure and Function of the Nucleic Acids....Pages 394-422
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
Hydrogen-Bonding Patterns in Water, Ices, the Hydrate Inclusion Compounds, and the Hydrate Layer Structures....Pages 425-451
Hydrates of Small Biological Molecules: Carbohydrates, Amino Acids, Peptides, Purines, Pyrimidines, Nucleosides and Nucleotides....Pages 452-458
Hydration of Proteins....Pages 459-486
Hydration of Nucleic Acids....Pages 487-504
The Role of Three-Center Hydrogen Bonds in the Dynamics of Hydration and of Structure Transition....Pages 505-510
Back Matter....Pages 511-569

✦ Subjects

Cell Biology;Biophysics and Biological Physics;Biochemistry, general;Organic Chemistry

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