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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 41, Issue 9, Pages 3547-3557Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2cs15292d
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- Swedish Research Council [2007:4407]
- European Research Council under the European Community [259638]
- European Research Council (ERC) [259638] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Halogen bonding is the electron density donation based weak interaction of halogens with Lewis bases. Its applicability for molecular recognition processes long remained unappreciated and has so far mostly been studied in silico and in solid state. As most physiological processes and chemical reactions take place in solution, investigations in solutions are of highest relevance for its use in the pharmaceutical and material scientific toolboxes. Following a short discussion of the phenomenon of halogen bonding, this tutorial review presents an overview of the methods hitherto applied for gaining an improved understanding of its behaviour in solutions and summarizes the gained knowledge in order to indicate the scope of the techniques and to facilitate exciting future developments.
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