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Loretta Pretto
Researcher at University of Ferrara
Publications - 24
Citations - 1617
Loretta Pretto is an academic researcher from University of Ferrara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hydrogen bond & Supramolecular chemistry. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 24 publications receiving 1492 citations.
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Predicting Hydrogen-Bond Strengths from Acid−Base Molecular Properties. The pKa Slide Rule: Toward the Solution of a Long-Lasting Problem
TL;DR: The results attest that the pK(a) slide rule provides a reliable solution for the long-standing problem of H-bond-strength prediction and represents an efficient and practical tool for making such predictions directly accessible to all scientists.
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Covalent versus Electrostatic Nature of the Strong Hydrogen Bond: Discrimination among Single, Double, and Asymmetric Single-Well Hydrogen Bonds by Variable-Temperature X-ray Crystallographic Methods in β-Diketone Enol RAHB Systems
TL;DR: This contribution shows that diffraction methods are fairly able to assess the SW or DW nature of the H-bond formed and, in the second case, its dynamic or static nature, provided a Bayesian approach is used.
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The Nature of Solid-State N−H···O/O−H···N Tautomeric Competition in Resonant Systems. Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bonds Formed by the ···OC−CN−NH··· ⇄ ···HO−CC−NN··· Ketohydrazone−Azoenol System. A Variable-Temperature X-ray Crystallographic and DFT Computational Study
TL;DR: Gilli et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the N−H···O/O−H·N intramolecular resonance-assisted H-bonds (RAHBs) with dynamic exchange of the proton in the solid state.
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Variable-Temperature X-ray Crystallographic and DFT Computational Study of the NH···O/N···HO Tautomeric Competition in 1-(Arylazo)-2-naphthols. Outline of a Transiton-State Hydrogen-Bond Theory
TL;DR: In this article, a series of 1-arylazo-2-naphthols (AANs) with tautomeric and dynamically disordered NH···O ⇌ N···HO bonds according to the electronic properties of their substituents were studied by X-ray crystallography.
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Outline of a transition-state hydrogen-bond theory
TL;DR: Analysis of DFT-calculated energies and geometries by the methods of the rate-equilibrium Marcus theory shows that all H-bond features can be coherently interpreted in the frame of the transition-state (or activated-complex) theory by considering the bond as a chemical reaction.