The halogen bond

G Cavallo, P Metrangolo, R Milani, T Pilati… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The halogen bond occurs when there is evidence of a net attractive interaction between an
electrophilic region associated with a halogen atom in a molecular entity and a nucleophilic …

Halogen bonding in supramolecular chemistry

LC Gilday, SW Robinson, TA Barendt… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry is “the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the
structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical …

Computer modeling of halogen bonds and other σ-hole interactions

MH Kolar, P Hobza - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
In the field of noncovalent interactions a new paradigm has recently become popular. It
stems from the analysis of molecular electrostatic potentials and introduces a label, which …

Principles and applications of halogen bonding in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology

R Wilcken, MO Zimmermann, A Lange… - Journal of medicinal …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Halogen bonding has been known in material science for decades, but until recently,
halogen bonds in protein–ligand interactions were largely the result of serendipitous …

Detained introns are a novel, widespread class of post-transcriptionally spliced introns

PL Boutz, A Bhutkar, PA Sharp - Genes & development, 2015 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Deep sequencing of embryonic stem cell RNA revealed many specific internal introns that
are significantly more abundant than the other introns within polyadenylated transcripts; we …

Recent advances in ring-opening of donor acceptor cyclopropanes using C-nucleophiles

K Ghosh, S Das - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ring-opening transformations of donor–acceptor cyclopropanes (DAC) with carbon-
centered nucleophiles is a simple, straight-forward approach to 1, 3-bifunctional compounds …

Stereospecific targeting of MTH1 by (S)-crizotinib as an anticancer strategy

KVM Huber, E Salah, B Radic, M Gridling, JM Elkins… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Activated RAS GTPase signalling is a critical driver of oncogenic transformation and
malignant disease. Cellular models of RAS-dependent cancers have been used to identify …

Halogen bonding (X‐bonding): A biological perspective

MR Scholfield, CMV Zanden, M Carter… - Protein Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of the halogen bond (or X‐bond) has become recognized as contributing
significantly to the specificity in recognition of a large class of halogenated compounds. The …

Halogen bond: its role beyond drug–target binding affinity for drug discovery and development

Z Xu, Z Yang, Y Liu, Y Lu, K Chen… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Halogen bond has attracted a great deal of attention in the past years for hit-to-lead-to-
candidate optimization aiming at improving drug-target binding affinity. In general, heavy …

Dual kinase-bromodomain inhibitors for rationally designed polypharmacology

P Ciceri, S Müller, A O'mahony, O Fedorov… - Nature chemical …, 2014 - nature.com
Concomitant inhibition of multiple cancer-driving kinases is an established strategy to
improve the durability of clinical responses to targeted therapies. The difficulty of discovering …