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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
Published on: March 24, 2018
Halogen Bonding: From Fundamentals to Applications
Máté Erdélyi1, Catharine Esterhuysen2, Weiliang Zhu3
1Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University, 751 23, Uppsala, Sweden.
Abstract:
Guest Editors Maté Erdélyi, Catharine Esterhuysen, and Weilang Zhu introduce the joint Special Collection on Halogen Bonding published by ChemPlusChem and The Chemical Record. This collection is organized in association with the 4th International Symposium on Halogen Bonding (ISXB4) and features top multidisciplinary contributions where halogen bonding plays a pivotal role, including computational, synthetic and catalytic, supramolecular and crystal engineering, and biological investigations and applications.
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