This study evaluated the influence of 3 different photopolymerization sources on enamel shear bond strength after bleaching with 10% carbamide peroxide. Seventy-two incisive bovine teeth were randomly divided into 6 groups (n=12) according to bleaching treatment and photopolymerization source used: G1 -- Bleached / Halogen lamp; G2 -- Not bleached / Halogen lamp (control); G3 -- Bleached / Ligh...

The structures and intermolecular interactions in the halogen bonded complexes of anaesthetics (chloroform, halothane, enflurane and isoflurane) with formaldehyde were studied by ab initio MP2 and CCSD(T) methods. The CCSD(T)/CBS calculated binding energies of these complexes are between -2.83 and -4.21 kcal mol(-1). The largest stabilization energy has been found for the C-Br···O bonded haloth...

INTRODUCTION LED light-curing devices seek to provide a cold light activator which allows protocols of material polymerization with shorter duration. OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to evaluate the shear bond strength of bracket bonding using three types of light-curing devices: One with halogen light (Optilight Plus - Gnatus) and two with LEDs (Optilight CL - Gnatus and Elipar Freelight - ...

Interlocked molecules have captured chemists imagination owing to their nontrivial topology and the promise of their potential nanotechnological uses as molecular machines and in chemical sensor applications. The synthesis of such sophisticated architectures is a challenge, and as a consequence this has necessitated the implementation of imaginative cation, anion, and neutral templation methodo...

Cyclic voltammetry has been used for the first time to probe and to control the formation of non-covalent halogen bonding (XB) via redox switching. These results strongly encourage the use of electrochemistry as an economical and precisely controllable tool for the investigation of XB in solution.