A weak hydrogen-bond occurring between soft acids and soft bases

Established April 1999

Updated February 4, 2012; to be revised frequently

Author: Motohiro NISHIO

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CONTENTS

The CH/pi interaction. What is it?

Our papers and reviews

Database (List of papers related to the CH/pi hydrogen bond; selected papers related to the XH/pi and CH/n hydrogen bonds)

Related books: The CH/pi Interaction. Evidence, Nature, and Consequences, Wiley-VCH (1998); Introduction to Intramolecular Forces in Organic Chemistry, Kodansha (2000). The Weak Hydrogen Bond in Structural Chemistry and Biology, by G. R. Desiraju and T. Steiner, Oxford (1999)

What's New

Forum (Visitors' page)

About the author


This is a forum of everybody who is interested in the weak intermolecular forces.

The author wishes to introduce the important roles of the CH/pi interaction in chemistry and biology.

He will be glad if you join us in the discussion. Please visit the database and visitor's page, and give your opinion, comments, and information.


Information, advice, and encouragement from the following scientists are gratefully acknowledged.

H.-J. Schneider (Saarbrucken), N. Hayashi (Kyoto), H. Sigel (Basel), F.-G. Klaerner (Essen), A. Schmidt (Stuttgart), F. Diederich (Zurich), C. Roussel, L. Stella (Marseille), E. N. Jacobsen (Boston), L. Sweeting (Baltimore), J. Steed (London), E. Dalcanale (Parma), S. Kondo (Tokyo), Y. Umezawa (Tokyo), S. Tsuzuki (Tsukuba), Y. Takeuchi (Meiji Seika), T. Yuzuri (Yokohama), Y. Kohno (Hiroshima), H. Masuda (Nagoya), P. Chakrabarti (Calcutta), G. M. Caciuffo (Ancona), K. Kuchitsu (Tokyo), T. Yoshida (Yokohama), T. Steiner (Berlin), H.-K. Fun (Penang), K. Kobayashi (RIKEN), A. Piccolo (Napoli), H. Takahashi (Kyoto), M. Iwaoka (Tokyo), Kyoko Ueno (Tokyo), H. Suezawa, S. Ishihara (Yokohama), V. Spiwok (Prague)

Thanks of the author are also due to Takako Nishio, Jun and Chie Suzuki for their cooperation.


Please kindly give your messages, information, or queries if any to the following address.

The CHPI Institute, 705-6-338 Minamioya, Machida, Tokyo 194-0031, Japan

Tel & Fax: +81-42-726-5956

e-mail: dionisio@tim.hi-ho.ne.jp

Thank you.