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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
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Published on: March 24, 2018

Structural versatility of anion-pi interactions in halide salts with pentafluorophenyl substituted cations

Markus Albrecht1, Claudia Wessel, Marita de Groot

  • 1Institut für Organische Chemie, RWTH Aachen, Landoltweg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany. markus.albrecht@oc.rwth-aachen.de

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|March 14, 2008
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