From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed Feb 8 06:37:00 2012 From: "Guntram Schmidt guntram.schmidt*|*chemie.uni-halle.de" To: CCL Subject: CCL: How can be separate CH-pi and pi-pi interaction? Message-Id: <-46262-120208053443-17727-893QHogO/eTrZvmpWAiUOw(!)server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Guntram Schmidt Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:34:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: Guntram Schmidt [guntram.schmidt[A]chemie.uni-halle.de] Dear RAAM, this surely is not a simple question and there won't be any straigtforward answers. But I can advice you an extremely cool tool for the analysis of your interactions: http://faculty1.ucmerced.edu/ejohnson29/2.cfm?pm=432&lvl=2&menuid=562 based on Johnson, E. R., Keinan, S., Mori-Sánchez, P., Contreras-García, J., Cohen, A. J., & Yang, W. (2010). Revealing noncovalent interactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(18), 6498-506. doi:10.1021/ja100936w regards, Guntram Am 07.02.2012 19:22, schrieb Ram Shankar S ramchemistry2011]=[gmail.com: > Sent to CCL by: "Ram Shankar S" [ramchemistry2011|gmail.com] > Dear All, > How can we separate CH-pi and pi-pi interaction into strong, moderate and weak based on the bond distance and bond angles (geometrical parameters) in pure organic substances? Whether is there any reference available for this? > > On what basis this kind of interactions (CH-pi and pi-pi) is separated, and I would like to know how this CH-pi and pi-pi interactions can be classified as strong, moderate and weak.Please help me in this regards. > > Thanks in advance > > With Regards, > RAAM> >