Fluorine in crystal engineering—“the little atom that could”

K Reichenbächer, HI Süss, J Hulliger - Chemical Society Reviews, 2005 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last decade interactions of fluorine substituents in a variety of organic compounds
have gained interest in life science and solid state materials. This review provides …

Fluorinated elements of Group 15 as pnictogen bond donor sites

P Scilabra, G Terraneo, G Resnati - Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
The presence of fluorine atom (s) in a molecule makes the σ-hole potentials of surrounding
atoms more positive and thus increases their tendencies to interact attractively with …

Role of organic fluorine in crystal engineering

D Chopra, TNG Row - CrystEngComm, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The design of compounds with novel and improved physico-chemical properties as
advanced functional materials with a specific application spectrum requires the knowledge …

A new polymorph of 5-fluorouracil found following computational crystal structure predictions

AT Hulme, SL Price, DA Tocher - Journal of the American …, 2005 - ACS Publications
A new polymorph of 5-fluorouracil has been obtained following a manual polymorph screen
inspired by a computational crystal structure prediction search. It corresponds to the …

Is organic fluorine really “not” polarizable?

D Chopra - Crystal growth & design, 2012 - ACS Publications
The covalent chemistry of the main group element fluorine is well understood. In contrast, its
noncovalent chemistry, which forms the pillar of the paradigm of supramolecular chemistry …

A conformationally flexible, urea-based tripodal anion receptor: Solid-state, solution, and theoretical studies

DR Turner, MJ Paterson, JW Steed - The Journal of Organic …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Tripodal tris (urea) cationic receptors 1 and 2 containing p-tolyl or octyl substituents,
respectively, have been synthesized, and their association behavior with anionic guests has …

Role of hetero-halogen (F··· X, X= Cl, Br, and I) or homo-halogen (X··· X, X= F, Cl, Br, and I) interactions in substituted benzanilides

SK Nayak, MK Reddy, TN Guru Row… - Crystal growth & …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A series of halogen-substituted benzanilides have been synthesized and characterized, and
crystallization studies directed toward generation of polymorphs have been performed to …

Evaluation of the interchangeability of C–H and C–F groups: insights from crystal packing in a series of isomeric fluorinated benzanilides

D Chopra, TNG Row - CrystEngComm, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of mono-and difluorinated benzanilides have been synthesized and characterized
to unravel the importance of interactions involving organic fluorine. The effect of fluorine …

Which intermolecular interactions have a significant influence on crystal packing?

R Taylor - CrystEngComm, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The tendency for an interaction to occur in crystal structures is not a simple function of its
calculated energy in vacuo. This was shown by ranking intermolecular atom⋯ atom …

Structural Investigation of Weak Intermolecular Interactions in Fluorine Substituted Isomeric N-Benzylideneanilines

G Kaur, P Panini, D Chopra… - Crystal growth & …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The study of the influence of aromatic C–F group in directing crystal packing is an important
area of current research. The role of the aromatic C–F group in the formation of weak …