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SUBMITTER: Portela S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8036253 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Portela Susana S Fernández Israel I
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20210326 7
The factors responsible for the enhancement of the halogen bond by an adjacent hydrogen bond have been quantitatively explored by means of state-of-the-art computational methods. It is found that the strength of a halogen bond is enhanced by ca. 3 kcal/mol when the halogen donor simultaneously operates as a halogen bond donor and a hydrogen bond acceptor. This enhancement is the result of both stronger electrostatic and orbital interactions between the XB donor and the XB acceptor, which indicat ...[more]