@article{ce0e3ad4598d42289d46bb13999d652e,
title = "Experimental investigation of halogen-bond hard-soft acid-base complementarity",
abstract = "The halogen bond (XB) is a topical noncovalent interaction of rapidly increasing importance. The XB employs a 'soft' donor atom in comparison to the 'hard' proton of the hydrogen bond (HB). This difference has led to the hypothesis that XBs can form more favorable interactions with 'soft' bases than HBs. While computational studies have supported this suggestion, solution and solid-state data are lacking. Here, XB soft-soft complementarity is investigated with a bidentate receptor that shows similar associations with neutral carbonyls and heavy chalcogen analogs. The solution speciation and XB soft-soft complementarity is supported by four crystal structures containing neutral and anionic soft Lewis bases. Investigation of halogen-bond hard-soft acid-base complementarity in solution and solid-phases is presented.",
keywords = "NMR titration, anion recognition, halogen bonding, hard-soft acid-base",
author = "Riel, \{Asia Marie S.\} and Jessop, \{Morly J.\} and Decato, \{Daniel A.\} and Massena, \{Casey J.\} and Nascimento, \{Vinicius R.\} and Berryman, \{Orion B.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} International Union of Crystallography, 2017.",
year = "2017",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1107/S2052520617001809",
language = "English",
volume = "73",
pages = "203--209",
journal = "Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials",
issn = "2052-5192",
publisher = "John Wiley \& Sons Inc.",
number = "2",
}