%0 Journal Article %T Hydrogen Bonds Sites of Amylose or Amylopectin from Starch at the ONION Level (B3LYP/6-311++G [d, p]: AM1) %A Abl¨¦ Anoh Valentin %A N¡¯Guessan Boka Robert %A Bamba El Hadji Sawaliho %J Computational Chemistry %P 85-96 %@ 2332-5984 %D 2021 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/cc.2021.91005 %X The research aims to help reduce the enormous post-harvest losses of rice or bananas in Cote d¡¯Ivoire. It focuses on the breakdown mechanism of their starch. This process contributes to their decay. This study wants to elucidate it; to do this, it analyzes the tetra or penta saccharide reactions with the water or dioxide carbon. It calculates the geometric, energetic and spectroscopic parameters at the ONIOM level (B3LYP/6-311++G [d, p]: AM1). These quantities allow establishing that oxygen \"\" represents the privileged hydrogen bond (HB) site for amylose with four or five D-glucose building blocks. They suggest  \"\" and  \"\" are respectively those of amylopectin when the latter consists of four and five D-glucose synthons. They prove that amylose deteriorates before it; the degradation of starch begins with its alteration into disaccharides. It continues with that of amylopectin into tri or tetra-saccharides with four or five building blocks. %K Hydrogen Bonds %K Glucose %K Amylose %K Amylopectin %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=106717