Cover Feature: Cooperative Self‐Assembly in Linear Chains Based on Halogen Bonds (ChemPlusChem 6/2021)

The Cover Feature shows how understanding the growth of linear molecular chains is key for rational design and synthesis novel supramolecular materials. Using state-of-the-art quantum chemical computations, this work demonstrates that cooperative properties halogen bonds in can be rationalized by increased charge separation within σ-electronic system, resulting from a stronger transfer lone-pair orbital nitrogen atom on one unit to C–halogen acceptor adjacent unit. More information found Full Paper G. Paragi, C. Fonseca Guerra, co-workers.