Probabilities of formation of bimolecular cyclic hydrogen-bonded motifs in organic crystal structures: a systematic database analysis

Abstract

A database methodology has been developed to locate all possible occurrences of bimolecular cyclic hydrogen-bonded motifs in the Cambridge Structural Database and to calculate their probabilities of formation; the top 24 motifs involving D–H···A (D, A = N or O) are identified.

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