Issue 31, 2017

Chalcogen bonding in synthesis, catalysis and design of materials

Abstract

Chalcogen bonding is a type of noncovalent interaction in which a covalently bonded chalcogen atom (O, S, Se or Te) acts as an electrophilic species towards a nucleophilic (negative) region(s) in another or in the same molecule. In general, this interaction is strengthened by the presence of an electron-withdrawing group on the electron-acceptor chalcogen atom and upon moving down in the periodic table of elements, from O to Te. Following a short discussion of the phenomenon of chalcogen bonding, this Perspective presents some demonstrative experimental observations in which this bonding is crucial for synthetic transformations, crystal engineering, catalysis and design of materials as synthons/tectons.

Graphical abstract: Chalcogen bonding in synthesis, catalysis and design of materials

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
09 май 2017
Accepted
22 юни 2017
First published
22 юни 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Dalton Trans., 2017,46, 10121-10138

Chalcogen bonding in synthesis, catalysis and design of materials

K. T. Mahmudov, M. N. Kopylovich, M. F. C. Guedes da Silva and A. J. L. Pombeiro, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 10121 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT01685A

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