An overview of halogen bonding.

Peter Politzer, Pat Lane, Monica C Concha, Yuguang Ma, Jane S Murray

Journal: Journal of molecular modeling 2007;13(2):305-11

PMID: 17013631

Abstract

Halogen bonding (XB) is a type of noncovalent interaction between a halogen atom X in one molecule and a negative site in another. X can be chlorine, bromine or iodine. The strength of the interaction increases in the order Cl

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