Cooperativity in multiple unusual weak bonds

• DOI: 10.1007/s00214-009-0690-1
• Publication Date: 2009-11-24T12:07:25Z
• Authors: Ibon Alkorta; Fernando Blanco; Pere M. Deyà; José Elguero; Carolina Estarellas; Antonio Frontera; David Quiñonero
• Keywords: Cooperativity; Halogen bond

Peer Reviewed<br/>This review covers two aspects concerning cooperativity in multiple weak bonds: a summary of literature results and a theoretical study of a complete series of model complexes. All the 15 combination of five weak bonds were explored: hydrogen bonds, hydric bonds, dihydrogen bonds, halogen bonds and ion-π interactions. Since in several cases there were no examples reported, a systematic exploration has been carried out on simple models at the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ level. The results thus obtained have been analyzed using the atoms in molecules methodology. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.<br/>