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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2012 Sep 13;116(38):11701–11711. doi: 10.1021/jp303910u

Table 2.

The trajectory-averaged number of hydrogen bonds made by caffeine in each of the present simulations, with a hydrogen bond distance cutoff of 3.4 Å and an angle cutoff of 150°.

Caffeine acceptors Water β-glucose* β-glucose donors
HO1 HO2 HO3 HO4 HO6
O6 0.854 0.145 0.039 0.029 0.024 0.027 0.025
O2 0.845 0.150 0.031 0.028 0.030 0.034 0.029
N9 0.837 0.201 0.040 0.029 0.038 0.038 0.056
Caffeine acceptors Water α-glucose* α-glucose donors
HO1 HO2 HO3 HO4 HO6
O6 0.839 0.179 0.024 0.029 0.030 0.036 0.061
O2 0.846 0.158 0.031 0.023 0.031 0.028 0.046
N9 0.827 0.218 0.038 0.037 0.450 0.046 0.053
Caffeine-Sucrose Solution
Caffeine acceptors Water α-glucose moiety α-glucose donors
HO2 HO3 HO4 HO6
O6 0.865 0.062 0.009 0.015 0.016 0.023
O2 0.885 0.049 0.010 0.008 0.010 0.020
N9 0.815 0.094 0.012 0.019 0.013 0.050
Caffeine acceptors Water β-fructose moiety β-fructose donors
HO1 HO3 HO4 HO6
O6 0.865 0.060 0.010 0.005 0.012 0.033
O2 0.885 0.048 0.012 0.007 0.008 0.020
N9 0.815 0.098 0.026 0.005 0.021 0.045
*

Note that these hydrogen bonded partners give rise to the density arms extending around the sides of the molecule in Figure 4.