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      Are bond critical points really critical for hydrogen bonding?

      Lane, Joseph R.; Contreras-García, Julia; Piquemal, Jean-Philip; Miller, Benjamin J.; Kjaergaard, Henrik G.
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       10.1021/ct400420r
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       pubs.acs.org
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      Lane, J. R., Contreras-García, J., Piquemal, J.-P., Miller, B. J., & Kjaergaard, H. G. (2013). Are bond critical points really critical for hydrogen bonding? Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 9(8), 3263-3266.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8137
      Abstract
      Atoms in Molecules (AIM) theory is routinely used to assess hydrogen bond formation; however its stringent criteria controversially exclude some systems that otherwise appear to exhibit weak hydrogen bonds. We show that a regional analysis of the reduced density gradient, as provided by the recently introduced Non-Covalent Interactions (NCI) index, transcends AIM theory to deliver a chemically intuitive description of hydrogen bonding for a series of 1,n-alkanediols. This regional definition of interactions overcomes the known caveat of only analyzing electron density critical points. In other words, the NCI approach is a simple and elegant generalization of the bond critical point approach, which raises the title question. Namely, is it the presence of an electron density bond critical point that defines a hydrogen bond or the general topology in the region surrounding it?
      Date
      2013
      Type
      Journal Article
      Publisher
      American Chemical Society
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