Designing Intermolecular Interactions between Halogenated Peripheries of Inorganic and Organic Molecules: Electrostatically Directed MX⋅⋅⋅X′C Halogen Bonds

✍ Scribed by Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas; Lee Brammer; Paul Sherwood

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 220 KB
• Volume: 118
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/ange.200502586

✦ Synopsis

Halogen atoms (X) typically form a covalent single bond to only one other atom within a molecule, which places them most frequently at the periphery of that molecule and, thus, at molecular interfaces in condensed phases. Such terminally