The Cover Feature shows how understanding the growth of linear molecular chains is key for rational design and synthesis novel supramolecular materials. Using state-of-the-art quantum chemical computations, this work demonstrates that cooperative properties halogen bonds in can be rationalized by increased charge separation within σ-electronic system, resulting from a stronger transfer lone-pai...

Ab initio EOM-CCSD calculations have been performed to determine one- and two-bond spin-spin coupling constants 1J(F-Cl), 1XJ(Cl-N), and 2XJ(F-N) across F-Cl...N halogen bonds in complexes with F-Cl as the Lewis acid and N2, FCN, HCN, (CH3)CN, LiCN, Z-HNNH, H2CNH, NH2F, NH3, cyclic-NH(CH2)2, and NH2(CH3) as Lewis bases. The structures of these complexes were optimized at MP2 with the aug'-cc-pV...

Stable minima showing halogen bonds between charged molecules with the same sign have been explored by means of theoretical calculations. The dissociation transition states and their corresponding barriers have also been characterized. In all cases, the results indicate that the complexes are thermodynamically unstable but kinetically stable with respect to the isolated monomers in gas phase. A...

The asymmetric unit of the title co-crystalline adduct, 1,3,6,8-tetra-aza-tri-cyclo[4.4.1.13,8]dodecane (TATD)-4-iodo-phenol (1/2), C8H16N4·2C6H5IO, comprises a half mol-ecule of the aminal cage polyamine plus a 4-iodo-phenol mol-ecule. A twofold rotation axis generates the other half of the adduct. The components are linked by two inter-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds. The adducts are further l...

A theoretical study of the complexes formed by hypohalous acids (HOX, X = F, Cl, Br, I, and At) with three nitrogenated bases (NH 3, N 2, and NCH) has been carried out by means of ab initio methods, up to MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ computational method. In general, two minima complexes are found, one with an OH...N hydrogen bond and the other one with a X...N halogen bond. While the first one is more stab...

The syntheses and crystal structures of N-(7-bromo-methyl-1,8-naphthyridin-2-yl)acetamide dioxane hemisolvate, C11H10BrN3O·0.5C4H8O2, (I), and bis-[N-(7-di-bromo-methyl-1,8-naphthyridin-2-yl)acetamide] dioxane hemisolvate, 2C11H9Br2N3O·0.5C4H8O2, (II), are described. The mol-ecules adopt a conformation with the N-H hydrogen pointing towards the lone electron pair of the adjacent naphthyridine N...