Weisberg’s 2007 recent paper on the chemical bond makes the claim that the chemical notion of the covalent bond is in trouble. This note casts doubts on that claim.

The reactions of carbon centered radical pairs often involve diffusion controlled combination and/or disproportionation reactions which are non-selective. A triplet geminate pair of radicals is produced by the photolysis of suitable ketones. The reactions of such geminate pairs can be controlled though the application of supramolecular concepts which emphasize non-covalent interaction to "steer...

Design and synthesis of porous solids employing both reversible coordination chemistry and reversible covalent bond formation is described. The combination of two different linkage modes in a single material presents a link between two distinct classes of porous materials as exemplified by metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs). This strategy, in addition to bein...

Electrostatic (through-space) and covalent (through-bond) contributions to couplings involving the C[double bond]O and C[bond]N vibrational stretching modes of the amide group in the alpha-helix and the parallel and antiparallel beta-sheet structures of alanine polypeptides are analyzed. Coupling constants computed at the density functional theory level are compared with the transition dipole c...

Chirality transfer is an interesting phenomenon in Nature, which represents an important step to understand the evolution of chiral bias and the amplification of the chirality. In this paper, we report the chirality transfer via the entanglement of the alkyl chains between chiral gelator molecules and achiral amphiphilic Schiff base. We have found that although an achiral Schiff base amphiphile...

Our network is constructed by assigning edges between atoms which interact covalently and non-covalently. Each edge is weighted with weight given by the strength of the interaction between the two atoms it joins. Covalent bond strengths are obtained from tables assuming standard bond lengths. We include three types of non-covalent interactions: hydrophic interactions, hydrogen bonds, and electr...