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pi-Stacked quadruply hydrogen-bonded dimers: pi-stacking influences H-bonding
Dawei Guo1, Rint P Sijbesma, Han Zuilhof
1Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Wageningen University, Dreijenplein 8, 6703 HB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] The effects of pi-stacking on the stability of multiply hydrogen-bonded systems are investigated using hybrid DFT calculations on pi-stacked quadruply H-bonded dimers of ureidopyrimidinone in its different tautomeric forms. Both the strengths of the hydrogen bonds and the relative occurrence of tautomers are influenced by pi-stacking; electrostatics and natural bond orbital analysis are used to explain these observations. Finally, these conclusions are independent of the precise nature of the multiply hydrogen-bonded systems, including the DNA base pairs.
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