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CHEMICAL REVIEWS
Volume 116, Issue 9, Pages 5155-5187Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00560
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic [RVO 61388963]
- Czech Science Foundation [P208/12/G016]
- operational program Research and Development for Innovations of the European Social Fund [CZ 1.05/2.1.00/03/0058]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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In the field of noncovalent interactions a new paradigm has recently become popular. It stems from the analysis of molecular electrostatic potentials and introduces a label, which has recently attracted enormous attention. The label is sigma-hole, and it was first used in connection with halogens. It initiated a renaissance of interest in halogenated compounds, and later on, when found also on other groups of atoms (chalcogens, pnicogens, tetrels and aerogens), it resulted in a new direction of research of intermolecular interactions. In this review, we summarize advances from about the last 10 years in understanding those interactions related to a -hole. We pay particular attention to theoretical and computational techniques, which play a crucial role in the field.
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