Perspectives on halogen bonding and other σ-hole interactions: Lex parsimoniae (Occam's Razor)

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 998, Issue , 2012, Pages 2-8

  Politzer, Peter ^a   Riley, Kevin E ^b   Bulat, Felipe A ^c   Murray, Jane S ^a  

^a CleVeTheoComp LLC   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c Fable Theory and Computation   (United States)

Author keywords

Hole bonding; Dispersion; Electrostatic potentials; Electrostatics polarization; Halogen bonding; Hydrogen bonding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867142518     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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