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Sara Gómez1, Elizabeth Flórez2, Nancy Acelas2
1Scuola Normale Superiore, Classe di Scienze, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126, Pisa, Italy. sara.gomezmaya@sns.it.
Abstract:
A 512 cage of (H2O)20 consisting of 30 hydrogen bonds encapsulates Astatide with little geometrical distortion. The cage is marginally destabilized but the non-covalent interactions are actually strengthened. Host⋯cage interactions in the [At@(H2O)20]- cluster are anti-electrostatic, placing both negatively charged atoms in direct contact as in At⋯O-H. An orbital interaction analysis reveals that explicit host⋯cage contacts are "inverted" hydrogen bonds. That is, the same type of donor→acceptor charge transfer as in hydrogen bonding, with no proton bridging the two negative charges.
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