Impact and importance of electrostatic potential calculations for predicting structural patterns of hydrogen and halogen bonding

CrystEngComm ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (44) ◽  
pp. 8631-8636 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Perera ◽  
J. Desper ◽  
A. S. Sinha ◽  
C. B. Aakeröy

Calculated molecular electrostatic potential difference (ΔMEP) of acceptor atoms in a multi component system will lead to different supramolecular architectures.

2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (12) ◽  
pp. 1598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane S. Murray ◽  
Kevin E. Riley ◽  
Peter Politzer ◽  
Timothy Clark

The prototypical directional weak interactions, hydrogen bonding and σ-hole bonding (including the special case of halogen bonding) are reviewed in a united picture that depends on the anisotropic nature of the molecular electrostatic potential around the donor atom. Qualitative descriptions of the effects that lead to these anisotropic distributions are given and examples of the importance of σ-hole bonding in crystal engineering and biological systems are discussed.


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1406
Author(s):  
Dmitriy F. Mertsalov ◽  
Rosa M. Gomila ◽  
Vladimir P. Zaytsev ◽  
Mikhail S. Grigoriev ◽  
Eugeniya V. Nikitina ◽  
...  

This manuscript reports the synthesis and X-ray characterization of two octahydro-1H-4,6-epoxycyclopenta[c]pyridin-1-one derivatives that contain the four most abundant halogen atoms (Ha) in the structure with the aim of studying the formation of Ha···Ha halogen bonding interactions. The anisotropy of electron density at the heavier halogen atoms provokes the formation of multiple Ha···Ha contacts in the solid state. That is, the heavier Ha-atoms exhibit a region of positive electrostatic potential (σ-hole) along the C–Ha bond and a belt of negative electrostatic potential (σ-lumps) around the atoms. The halogen bonding assemblies in both compounds were analyzed using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) surfaces, the quantum theory of “atom-in-molecules” (QTAIM), the noncovalent interaction plot (NCIplot), and the electron localization function (ELF).


IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 79455-79462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaihao Tang ◽  
Hongli Hu ◽  
Lin Li ◽  
Yong Qin ◽  
Xiaoxin Wang

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thufail M. Ismail ◽  
Neetha Mohan ◽  
P. K. Sajith

Interaction energy (Eint) of hydrogen bonded complexes of nitroxide radicals can be assessed in terms of the deepest minimum of molecular electrostatic potential (Vmin).


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