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Charge-Assisted Halogen Bonding in an Ionic Cavity of a Coordination Cage Based on a Copper(I) Iodide Cluster.
2023
The design of molecular containers capable of selective binding of specific guest molecules presents an interesting synthetic challenge in supramolecular chemistry. Here, we report the synthesis and structure of a coordination cage assembled from Cu3I4– clusters and tripodal cationic N-donor ligands. Owing to the localized permanent charges in the ligand core the cage binds iodide anions in specific regions within the cage by ionic interactions. This allows the selective binding of bromomethanes as secondary guest species within cage promoted by halogen bonding, which was confirmed by single crystal X-ray diffraction. peerReviewed
Do 2-coordinate iodine(I) and silver(I) complexes form Nucleophilic Iodonium Interactions (NIIs) in solution?
2022
The interaction of a [bis(pyridine)iodine(I)]+ cation with a [bis(pyridine)silver(I)]+ cation, in which an iodonium ion acts as nucleophile by transferring electron density to the silver(I) cation, is reinvestigated herein. No measurable interaction is observed between the cationic species in solution by NMR; DFT reveals that if there is an attractive interaction between this complexes in solution, it is dominantly the π-π interaction of pyridines peerReviewed
Halogen Bonding between Thiocarbonyl Compounds and 1,2- and 1,4-Diiodotetrafluorobenzenes
2021
The halogen bonding (XB) between 1,2-diiodotetrafluorobenzene (1,2-DITFB) or 1,4-diiodotetrafluorobenzene (1,4-DITFB) and the selection of different thiocarbonyl acceptors was studied by the single-crystal X-ray diffraction method. Diiodotetrafluorobenzenes (DITFBs) were found to form C-I···S halogen-bonded 1:1, 2:1, and 1:2 (donor/acceptor ratio) complexes with thiocarbonyls. Lengths of contacts were found to be clearly shorter than the sum of van der Waals radii of iodine and sulfur as well as the contact angles showed values close to linear, so the XB interactions could be verified. One sulfur atom showed the ability to accept one, two, or four XB interactions, and the acceptor angle can…
Extended Assemblies of Ru(bpy)(CO)2X2 (X = Cl, Br, I) Molecules Linked by 1,4-Diiodotetrafluoro-Benzene (DITFB) Halogen Bond Donors
2019
The ruthenium carbonyl compounds, Ru(bpy)(CO)2X2 (X = Cl, Br or I) act as neutral halogen bond (XB) acceptors when co-crystallized with 1,4-diiodotetrafluoro-benzene (DITFB). The halogen bonding strength of the Ru-X&sdot
Tridentate C–I⋯O−–N+ halogen bonds
2017
The X-ray structures of the first co-crystals where the three oxygen lone pairs in N-oxides are fully utilized for tridentate C–I⋯O−–N+ halogen bonding with 1,ω-diiodoperfluoroalkanes are reported, studied computationally, and compared with the corresponding silver(I) N-oxide complexes. peerReviewed
A Novel Halogen Bond Acceptor : 1-(4-Pyridyl)-4-Thiopyridine (PTP) Zwitterion
2020
Sulfur is a widely used halogen bond (XB) acceptor, but only a limited number of neutral XB acceptors with bifurcated sp3-S sites have been reported. In this work a new bidentate XB acceptor, 1-(4-pyridyl)-4-thiopyridine (PTP), which combines sp3-S and sp2-N acceptor sites, is introduced. Three halogen bonded cocrystals were obtained by using 1,4-diiodobenzene (DIB), 1,4-diiodotetrafluorobenzene (DIFB), and iodopentafluorobenzene (IPFB) as XB donors and PTP as acceptor. The structures of the cocrystals showed some XB selectivity between the S and N donors in PTP. However, the limited contribution of XB to the overall molecular packing in these three cocrystals and the results from DSC measu…
Strong N−X···O−N Halogen Bonds: Comprehensive Study on N‐Halosaccharin Pyridine N‐oxide Complexes
2019
A detailed study of the strong N−X⋯−O−N+ (X = I, Br) halogen bonding interactions in solution and in the solid‐state reports 2×27 donor×acceptor complexes of N‐halosaccharins and pyridine N‐oxides (PyNO). Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations were used to investigate the X···O halogen bond (XB) interaction energies in 54 complexes. The XB interaction energies were found to vary from –47.5 to –120.3 kJ mol–1, with the strongest N−I⋯−O−N+ XBs approaching those of 3‐center‐4‐electron [N–I–N]+ halogen‐bonded systems (∼160 kJ mol–1). Using a subset of 32 complexes, stabilized only through N−X···−O−N+ XB interactions, a simplified, computationally fast, electrostatic model to predict the X…
Melting point, molecular symmetry and aggregation of tetrachlorobenzene isomers: the role of halogen bonding
2018
Tetrachlorobenzenes represent one of the best known, but not yet fully understood, group of isomers of the structure–melting point relationship. The differences in melting temperatures of these structurally related compounds were rationalized in terms of the hierarchy and nature of formed noncovalent interactions, and the molecular aggregation that is influenced by molecular symmetry. The highest melting point is associated with the highly symmetric 1,2,4,5-tetrachlorobenzene isomer. The structures of less symmetrical 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorobenzene and 1,2,3,5-tetrachlorobenzene, determined at 270 and 90 K, show a distinct pattern of halogen bonds, characterized by the different numbers and typ…
Supramolecular Modification of ABC Triblock Terpolymers in Confinement Assembly
2018
The self-assembly of AB diblock copolymers in three-dimensional (3D) soft confinement of nanoemulsions has recently become an attractive bottom up route to prepare colloids with controlled inner morphologies. In that regard, ABC triblock terpolymers show a more complex morphological behavior and could thus give access to extensive libraries of multicompartment microparticles. However, knowledge about their self-assembly in confinement is very limited thus far. Here, we investigated the confinement assembly of polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpyridine)-block-poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) (PS-b-P4VP-b-PT or SVT) triblock terpolymers in nanoemulsion droplets. Depending on the block weight fractio…
Supramolecular Assembly of Metal Complexes by (Aryl)I⋯dz2[PtII] Halogen Bond
2020
The theoretical data for the half‐lantern complexes [Pt(C^N)(μ‐S^N)] 2 ( 1 – 3 ; С^N is cyclometalated 2‐Ph‐benzothiazole; S^N is 2‐SH‐pyridine 1 , 2‐SH‐benzoxazole 2 , 2‐SH‐tetrafluorobenzothiazole 3 ) indicate that the Pt···Pt orbital interaction leads to an increment of the nucleophilicity of the outer d z 2 ‐orbitals to provide assembly with electrophilic species. 1 – 3 were co‐crystallized with bifunctional halogen bond (XB) donors to give adducts ( 1 – 3 ) 2 ∙(1,4‐diiodotetrafluorobenzene) and infinite polymeric [ 1 ·1,1’‐diiodoperfluorodiphenyl] n . X‐ray crystallography revealed that the supramolecular assembly is achieved via (Aryl)I∙∙∙ d z 2 [Pt II ] XB between iodine σ‐holes and …