σ-Hole bonding: a physical interpretation

P Politzer, JS Murray, T Clark - Halogen bonding I: impact on materials …, 2015 - Springer
The anisotropic electronic densities of covalently-bonded Group IV–VII atoms frequently give
rise to regions of positive electrostatic potential on the extensions of covalent bonds to these …

[PDF][PDF] It is important to compute intramolecular hydrogen bonding in drug design

MJR Yunta - Am. J. Model. Optim, 2017 - researchgate.net
The effect of weak intermolecular interactions on the binding affinity between ligand-protein
complexes plays an important role in stabilizing a ligand at the interface of a protein …

Identifying the most energetic electrons in a molecule: The highest occupied molecular orbital and the average local ionization energy

FA Bulat, JS Murray, P Politzer - Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
The site of the greatest electronic density of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO)
is often taken to be the location of the most energetic electrons in a molecule, and thus the …

Strength of the pnicogen bond in complexes involving group Va elements N, P, and As

D Setiawan, E Kraka, D Cremer - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A set of 36 pnicogen homo-and heterodimers, R3E··· ER3 and R3E··· E′ R3′, involving
differently substituted group Va elements E= N, P, and As has been investigated at the …

A Continuum from Halogen Bonds to Covalent Bonds: Where Do λ3 Iodanes Fit?

S Yannacone, V Oliveira, N Verma, E Kraka - Inorganics, 2019 - mdpi.com
The intrinsic bonding nature of λ 3-iodanes was investigated to determine where its
hypervalent bonds fit along the spectrum between halogen bonding and covalent bonding …

Intramolecular O–H··· O C Hydrogen Bond Energy via the Molecular Tailoring Approach to RAHB Structures

D Rusinska-Roszak - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2015 - ACS Publications
A method for the calculation of the intramolecular hydrogen bond (HB) energy (E HB) by
molecular tailoring approach for hydroxycarbonyl aliphatic compounds has been used for …

Intramolecular pnicogen interactions in phosphorus and arsenic analogues of proton sponges

G Sánchez-Sanz, C Trujillo, I Alkorta… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A computational study of the intramolecular pnicogen bond in 1, 8-bis-substituted
naphthalene derivatives (ZXH and ZX2 with Z= P, As and X= H, F, Cl, and Br), structurally …

Reactivity of a model of B3P3-doped nanographene with up to three CO2 molecules

M Ferrer, I Alkorta, J Elguero, JM Oliva-Enrich - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The reactivity of a B3P3-doped hexa-cata-hexabenzocoronene, as a model of
nanographene (B3P3-NG), towards carbon dioxide was studied at the DFT M06-2X/6-311++ …

Methyl Groups as Hydrogen Bond Acceptors via Their sp3 Carbon Atoms

O Loveday, J Echeverria - Crystal Growth & Design, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report herein a combined structural and theoretical study of a novel hydrogen bond in
which a methyl group, when bound to an electropositive atom E, acts as the acceptor via its …

Estimation of the Intramolecular O–H··· O C Hydrogen Bond Energy via the Molecular Tailoring Approach. Part I: Aliphatic Structures

D Rusinska-Roszak, G Sowinski - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A simple and universal method for the estimation of the intramolecular hydrogen bond (HB)
energy (E HB) in hydroxycarbonyl aliphatic compounds is proposed by the application of the …