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SUBMITTER: Iribarren I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7070532 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20200212 4
A computational study of the iodide discrimination by different neutral and cationic iodotriazole halogen bonding hosts was carried out by means of Density Functional Theory. The importance of the size of the scaffold was highlighted and its impact observed in the binding energies and intermolecular X···I distances. Larger scaffolds were found to reduce the electronic repulsion and increase the overlap between the halide electron lone pair and the corresponding I-C antibonding orbital, increasin ...[more]