Tailoring halogen-bond donors for crystal engineering

Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, vol. 80, pp. e546

Abstract

Halogen bonds (XB) have gained extensive interest over the last decades, especially from theoretical chemists and physicist but also from the crystal engineering community.XBs emerge from the interaction of an electron-deficient site of a (mostly heavy) halogen atom (called the XB donor) and a nucleophile, thus forming a halogen bonded adduct.The electron-poor site at the halogen has been referred to as the σ-hole [1], as it is located on the opposite side of the halogens bond to the organyl rest.

Authors 2

1. Steven van Terwingen

   University of Vienna

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Inorganic Chemistry , University of Vienna , Währinger Str. 42 , 1090 Vienna , Austria,

2. Ulli Englert Aachen Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

   RWTH Aachen University · Shanxi University

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute of Inorganic Chemistry , RWTH Aachen University , Melatener Str. 1 , 52074 Aachen , Germany,

   Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of the Education Ministry , Shanxi University , 92 Wucheng Road , Taiyuan , Shanxi 030006 , PR China