Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title
Coordination Chemistry Reviews
Publication Date
12-10-2019
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
405
First Page
1
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Last Page
63
Abstract
Research on σ-hole interactions that include halogen, chalcogen, pnicogen, and tetrel bonding has been accelerating in recent years. These cousins of the H-bond have many similar properties, including geometric preferences and energetics. Most of the work to date has focused on neutral complexes, with less known about these bonds to anions. This review summarizes the current state of knowledge about the complexes of anions with ligands that engage in these sorts of noncovalent bonds. Of particular interest are comparisons with H-bonds, and how the geometry of the fully coordinated complex varies as the number of surrounding ligands increases. A specific application of these ideas is explored in which these noncovalent bonds can be used to selectively bind certain anions in a multidentate arrangement, where a symbiotic interplay of experimental and computational methods has provided some useful insights.
Recommended Citation
Scheiner, S. I., Michalczyk, M., Zierkiewicz, W. (2020). Coordination of anions by noncovalently bonded σ-hole ligands. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 405, 213136. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010854519305776
