As
told in the Introduction,
in
the last 25 years I had the fortune to
become involved, together with my coworkers
at the University of
Ferrara, in a considerably progressive research programme
intended to
clarify the very nature of the hydrogen bond and to find out the
empirical laws this intriguing bond is conforming to. The results of
this research have been illustrated in many lectures at important
meetings and schools and published in a number of scientific papers and
chapters of books. Quite recently (2009), our work has been
reconsidered, reorganized, and published in the book The
Nature of the
Hydrogen Bond: Outline of a Comprehensive Hydrogen Bond Theory
which I
coauthored with my daughter Paola and is illustrated in this very page.
At the end of October 2010, something new happened to me. I retired
as
a professor of the University of Ferrara, the institution I entered 54
years ago as a Chemistry student. While this event has not seriously
affected my normal scientific activity, it has greatly contributed to
free myself from many administrative commitments, making me possible to
use ce temps retrouvé
for doing something I have always dreamt of, an
open
forum on the
hydrogen bond or, more precisely, on the dual
hydrogen bond, the basic model which we believe all
possible hydrogen
bond theories can take origin from, as summarized in the 2010
mini-review Hydrogen
bond models and theories: The dual hydrogen bond
model and its consequences shown on the right of
this
opening page.
The structure of the present website is purely tentative. For the
moment, it is just conceived as a collection of aids for
hydrogen-bond
teaching, such as our
own references,
some important general
references, and the full text of three lectures
already
delivered by us
with a reasonable didactic outcome (new lectures will follow when
available). For the future, I am planning other sections, such as ‘FAQ’
and ‘HB news‘ (references and abstracts of new significant papers) but,
of course, much depends on the number of people that will kindly
contact this website.
Please
feel free to write to my
address for new contributions, suggestions, inquires and,
in case, published material you cannot easily download.
With my best wishes,
