Computational insight into the halogen bonded self-assembly of hexa-coordinated metalloporphyrins

pH controlled assembly of a self-complementary halogen-bonded dimer.

Phenols and their corresponding phenoxide anions can form halogen bonds with neutral iodotriazoles. The strength of these interactions depends critically on the protonation state of the oxygen atom - the interaction of the phenoxide anion is more than an order of magnitude stronger than the corresponding phenol. The assembly of a molecule bearing both an iodotriazole and a phenoxide anion into ...

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Halogen-Bonded Block Copolymer Complexes into Upright Cylindrical Domains

Self-assembly of block copolymers into well-defined, ordered arrangements of chemically distinct domains is a reliable strategy for preparing tailored nanostructures. Microphase separation results from the system, minimizing repulsive interactions between dissimilar blocks and maximizing attractive interactions between similar blocks. Supramolecular methods have also achieved this separation by...

Thermodynamics of halogen bonded monolayer self-assembly at the liquid-solid interface.

Monolayer self-assembly of a hexabrominated, three-fold symmetric aromatic molecule is studied at the heptanoic acid-graphite interface. Thermodynamical insights are obtained from an adapted Born-Haber cycle that is utilized to derive the overall enthalpy change including solvent effects. Comparison with theoretical entropy estimates suggests a minor influence of solvation.

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Halogen-bonded solvates of tetrahaloethynyl cavitands†

Halogen bonding (XB) has been receiving considerably increasing attention as it provides a complementary interaction to hydrogen bonding (HB). XB has been proven to play crucial roles in supramolecular chemistry, nanoscience, biosystems, and functional materials. Its directionality and tunability make XB an important noncovalent interaction, geometrically and thermodynamically, similar to HB; h...