Van der Waals and polar intermolecular contact distances: Quantifying supramolecular synthons

Chemistry - An Asian Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 868-880

  Ganguly, Parthasarathy ^b,c   Desiraju, Gautam R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c Mont Vert I   (India)

Author keywords

Atomic radii; Benzene; Crystal engineering; Supramolecular chemistry; Van der Waals radii

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849427511     PISSN: 18614728     EISSN: 1861471X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asia.200700343     Document Type: Article

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