Towards Designing Proton-Transfer Systems—Direct Imaging of Proton Disorder in a Hydrogen-Bonded Carboxylic Acid Dimer by Variable-Temperature X-ray Diffraction

✍ Scribed by Chick C. Wilson; Andres E. Goeta

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200352650

✦ Synopsis

Intermolecular hydrogen bonding plays an important role in the formation of anisotropic interactions in condensed systems. Hydrogen transfer through hydrogen bonds between molecules enables charge and energy transfer to occur in solid chemical and biological systems and has widespread implications for issues as diverse as ferroelectrics, electrochemical processes, and enzyme action. [1] The phenomenon has been extensively studied by a variety of spectroscopic methods, including IR, [2,3] nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR), [4] NMR, [3,5,6] and neutron scattering methods. [7] Until recently,