Halogen bonding, akin to hydrogen bonding, is a noncovalent interaction between a positive region on a halogen atom and a negative site, such as a lone pair on a nitrogen or oxygen. Following on the ...

Since Lehn's famous definition of supramolecular chemistry, supramolecular synthesis as a rapidly growing field is still in its formative stage, which is an important method to construct new ...

Halogen bonds were first proposed as an activating interaction in 2008, but this alternative type of organocatalysis was ...

image: RUDN University chemists derived molecules that can assemble into complex structures using chlorine and bromine halogen atoms. They bind to each other as "velcro" -- chlorine "sticks" to ...

Chemists have spent decades developing and refining the tools for constructing bonds in complex organic molecules — especially carbon–carbon (C–C) bonds, which form the framework of such molecules.