Hydrogen and dihydrogen bonds in the reactions of metal hydrides

NV Belkova, LM Epstein, OA Filippov… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The dihydrogen bond an interaction between a transition-metal or main-group hydride (M
H) and a protic hydrogen moiety (H X) is arguably the most intriguing type of hydrogen …

Significance of hydrogen bonding and other noncovalent interactions in determining octahedral tilting in the CH3NH3PbI3 hybrid organic-inorganic halide …

PR Varadwaj, A Varadwaj, HM Marques… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The CH3NH3PbI3 (methylammonium lead triiodide) perovskite semiconductor
system has been viewed as a blockbuster research material during the last five years …

Multi-center covalency: revisiting the nature of anion–π interactions

C Foroutan-Nejad, Z Badri, R Marek - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Exploring the nature of anion–π bonding by means of the Quantum Theory of Atoms in
Molecules (QTAIM) and an energy decomposition scheme on the basis of Interacting …

On the non-classical contribution in lone-pair–π interaction: IQA perspective

Z Badri, C Foroutan-Nejad, J Kozelka… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present work the nature of lone-pair–π interactions between water molecules and a
number of π-rings with different substituents/hetero-atoms in the light of quantum chemical …

Significant evidence of C⋯ O and C⋯ C long-range contacts in several heterodimeric complexes of CO with CH 3–X, should one refer to them as carbon and dicarbon …

PR Varadwaj, A Varadwaj, BY Jin - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Noncovalent interactions in 18 weakly bound binary complexes formed between either of
the two end-on orientations of the CO molecule and the methylated carbon positive σ-hole …

Can an entirely negative fluorine in a molecule, viz. perfluorobenzene, interact attractively with the entirely negative site (s) on another molecule (s)? Like liking like!

A Varadwaj, PR Varadwaj, BY Jin - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We present in this study the possibility of the formation of attractive intermolecular
interactions between various entirely negative sites localized on a variety of atoms in …

Experimental X-ray Electron Density Study of Atomic Charges, Oxidation States, and Inverted Ligand Field in Cu(CF3)4

C Gao, G Macetti, J Overgaard - Inorganic Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
The electron density distribution of the complex monoanion Cu (CF3) 4 in (Bu4N)[Cu (CF3)
4] has been studied by high-resolution X-ray single-crystal diffraction and augmented with …

Does Chlorine in CH3Cl Behave as a Genuine Halogen Bond Donor?

PR Varadwaj, A Varadwaj, HM Marques - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The CH3Cl molecule has been used in several studies as an example purportedly to
demonstrate that while Cl is weakly negative, a positive potential can be induced on its axial …

Contrasting behavior of the Z bonds in X–Z··· Y weak interactions: Z= main group elements versus the transition metals

J Joy, ED Jemmis - Inorganic Chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
In contrast to the increasing family of weak intermolecular interactions in main-group
compounds (X–Z··· Y, Z= main-group elements), an analysis of the Cambridge Structural …

Mutual interplay between pnicogen bond and dihydrogen bond in HMH⋯ HCN⋯ PH2X complexes (M= Be, Mg, Zn; X= H, F, Cl)

MD Esrafili, P Fatehi, M Solimannejad - Computational and Theoretical …, 2014 - Elsevier
The cooperativity between pnicogen bond and dihydrogen bond interactions in HMH⋯
HCN⋯ PH 2 X (M= Be, Mg, Zn; X= H, F, Cl) complexes is studied by ab initio calculations. To …