Questions tagged [hydrogen-bond]
Intermolecular force between covalently bound hydrogen atom and atom possessing a lone pair of electrons.
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What are the prerequisites in hydrogen bonding?
I know when a hydrogen bond is, but - can hydrogen bonds only occur between two molecules containing hydrogen? Or, only one of the molecules should contain hydrogen and the other one may not contain ...
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Bending of water and methanol towards a charged objects
I just had a question about why does water, methanol or any other polar substances tend to bend towards the charged object.
I think it is because of a slight dipole dipole movement between the ...
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Strength of hydrogen bonding in phenol or methanol
I wanted to know whether hydrogen bonding is stronger in phenol or methanol.
I saw on Wikipedia about the enthalpies of hydrogen bonding in various cases.
but could not find the answer to this ...
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How to simulate surface tension?
I am trying to create a water drop simulation for measuring hydrophobicity of surface. I don't know how to simulate the contact angle which is related by younges equation to the surface tensions for ...
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Why is HCl not considered to have hydrogen bonding?
A molecule that has hydrogen bonding usually follows these two premises.
1.) There is a hydrogen atom involved
2.) Hydrogen must be bonded to a highly electronegative element which are nitrogen ($\ce{...
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Why does the gauche conformation of ethane-1,2-diol show hydrogen bonding?
Why does the gauche conformation of ethane-1,2-diol show hydrogen bonding even though there is no 6-membered ring system? If we don't consider one of the $\ce{H}$ (which is what is usually done), then ...
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Theoretical model for the hydrogen bond
I am curious how, from the perspective of quantum chemistry, the hydrogen bond is modeled. In particular I am interested in using such a model to estimate the amount of energy released per $\ce{H2O}$ ...
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Length of C-H bonds in hybridized bonding orbitals
What is the effect of hybridization and double-bond formation on the rest of the atoms/molecules attached to the central atom?
For example, in a benzene molecule, the Carbon-Carbon bonds are ...
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Why is a ketone not capable of hydrogen bonding among themselves?
The ketone has one oxygen atom in it and there are two lone pairs hanging out, both of which make it seemingly capable of hydrogen bonding. But in reality it is not.
Did some research and found this ...
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Which intermolecular interaction is dependent on the inverse cube of distance?
The intermolecular interaction that is dependent on the inverse cube of distance between molecules is:
hydrogen bond
ion-ion interaction
ion-dipole interaction
London force
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Does intramolecular hydrogen bonding occur in dicarboxylic acids?
Consider ethanedioic acid:
Could it form intramolecular hydrogen bonds (between the C=O and HO)?
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When does hydrogen bonding happen?
What kinds of molecules will experience hydrogen bonding (inter and intra)? Why does it occur for some H atoms but not others?
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Volatile nature due to hydrogen bonding
Why does intramolecular hydrogen bonding make an organic (or possibly inorganic as well(?)) compound volatile.
What I think is that it might be due to decrease in the solubility of the compound as ...
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Hydrogen bond comparison
How do you compare the strength of H bonds when it's the same atom on both sides of the H? Like $\ce{N-H\bond{...}N}$ vs $\ce{F-H\bond{...}F}$? Is one still stronger than the other, or are they both ...
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Is a hydrogen bond considered to be a van der Waals force?
Is a hydrogen bond considered to be a Van der Waals force?
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