Noncovalent Forces

1. Introduction to the Volume, Steve Scheiner.- Part 1. Hydrogen Bonds.- 2. Hydrogen bonds involving sulfur: New insights from ab initio calculations and gas phase laser spectroscopy, Himansu S. Biswal.- 3. CH pi interaction in organic molecules, Osamu Takahashi.- 4. CH O H-bond as a determining factor in molecular structure, Steve Scheiner.- 5. Hydrogen bonds involving radical species, Qingzhong Li and Hai-Bei Li.- 6. Agostic and hydrogen-bonding X-H M interactions involving a d8 metal center: Recent advances towards their understanding, Jiri Kozelka.- 7. What is common for dihydrogen bond and H sigma interaction - theoretical analysis and experimental evidences, Slawomir J. Grabowski.- Part 2. Other Bridging Atoms.- 8. The Pnicogen Bond in Review: Structures, Binding Energies, Bonding Properties, and Spin-Spin Coupling Constants of Complexes Stabilized by Pnicogen Bonds, Janet E. Del Bene, Ibon Alkorta and Jose Elguero.- 9. Chalcogen bonds in protein architecture, Michio Iwaoka.- 10. A Unified View of Halogen Bonding, Hydrogen Bonding and Other sigma-Hole Interactions, Peter Politzer and Jane Murray.- 11. The X-C Y carbon bond, Devendra Mani and E. Arunan.- 12. Interplay of Hydrogen, Halogen, Lithium and Beryllium Bonds in Complexes of Thiirane, Sean A. C. McDowell and Jerelle A. Joseph.- 13. Understanding Lone pair-pi Interactions from Electrostatic Viewpoint , Shridhar R. Gadre and Anmol Kumar.- Part 3. Aromatic Systems.- 14. Unraveling the Origin of Substituents Effects in pi-Stacking Interactions, Steven E. Wheeler.- 15. Noncovalent interactions of organic ions with polar molecules in the gas phase, M. S. El-Shall, Isaac K. Attah, Sean P. Platt.- 16. Anion-pi interactions in supramolecular chemistry and catalysis, Antonio Bauza, Pere M. Deya and Antonio Frontera.- 17. A Survey of DNA-Protein pi-interactions: A Comparison of Natural Occurrences and Structures and Computationally Predicted Structures and Strengths, Katie A. Wilson and Stacey D. Wetmore.