Organic fluorine hardly ever accepts hydrogen bonds

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-98

  Dunitz, Jack D ^a   Taylor, Robin ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CAMBRIDGE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ab initio calculations; Cambridge structural database; fluorine compounds; hydrogen bonds; protein data bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030937244     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.19970030115     Document Type: Article

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