Issue 54, 2012
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Chemical Communications

The halogen bond made visible: experimental charge density of a very short intermolecular Cl⋯Cl donor–acceptor contact†

Ruimin Wang,a   Thomas S. Dols,ab   Christian W. Lehmannb  and  Ulli Englert*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
E-mail: ullrich.englert@ac.rwth-aachen.de
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b Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

Abstract

[ZnCl2(3,4,5-trichloropyridine)2] features short intermolecular Cl⋯Cl contacts between halogen atoms of different nature, and a charge density study provides experimental evidence for the accepted model of the halogen bonds: an arene-bonded Cl atom acts as a donor of electron density towards the “sigma hole” of a chlorido ligand attached to a neighbouring Zn(II) cation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC32647G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Apr 2012
Accepted
15 May 2012
First published
16 May 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 6830-6832

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The halogen bond made visible: experimental charge density of a very short intermolecular Cl⋯Cl donor–acceptor contact

R. Wang, T. S. Dols, C. W. Lehmann and U. Englert, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6830 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC32647G

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