Multiple choice

Among the following forces, --------------------- is a combination of hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions.

  1. agostic bond

  2. dipolar bond

  3. π backbonding

  4. salt bond
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Explanation

Salt bond falls into the broader category of noncovalent interactions. A salt bond is actually a combination of two noncovalent interactions: hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions .This is most commonly observed to contribute stability to the entropically unfavourable folded conformation of proteins.

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