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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
Published on: March 24, 2018
The halogen bond made visible: experimental charge density of a very short intermolecular Cl···Cl donor-acceptor
Ruimin Wang1, Thomas S Dols, Christian W Lehmann
1Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, D-52074 Aachen, Germany.
Abstract:
[ZnCl(2)(3,4,5-trichloropyridine)(2)] features short intermolecular Cl···Cl contacts between halogen atoms of different nature, and a charge density study provides experimental evidence for the accepted model of the halogen bonds: an arene-bonded Cl atom acts as a donor of electron density towards the "sigma hole" of a chlorido ligand attached to a neighbouring Zn(II) cation.
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