Structure–activity relationship for quantifying aromatic interactions†

Abstract

The magnitudes of a range of intermolecular edge-to-face aromatic interactions are measured using chemical double mutant cycles in synthetic H-bonded molecular zipper complexes, and good correlations are obtained with the Hammett substituent constants, suggesting that the results can be extrapolated to other functional group combinations.

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