Volume 100, Issue 5 pp. 758-763
Properties, Dynamics, and Electronic Structure of Atoms and Molecules

Self-assembly structure of the levulinic acid–melamine lattice

Ramaiyer Venkatraman

Ramaiyer Venkatraman

Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

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Paresh Chandra Ray

Corresponding Author

Paresh Chandra Ray

Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University, Jackson, MSSearch for more papers by this author
Chan Soo Choi

Chan Soo Choi

Division of Hi-Tech Materials Science, Daejeon University, Daejeon, Korea

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First published: 05 August 2004
Citations: 10

Abstract

Equimolar amounts of levulinic acid and melamine formed a self-assembled unit through a hydrogen-bonding network. Room-temperature single-crystal diffraction studies and FTIR spectroscopy of the system indicated adduct formation between melamine and levulinic acid. Ab initio Hartree–Fock (HF) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, using the 6-31G(d,p) basis set, have been performed to investigate the gas-phase structure and IR frequencies. The theoretical parameters (geometry and vibrational frequencies) predicted by HF and DFT methods for the adduct are in good agreement with the experimental data. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2004

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