Metal Centers as Nucleophiles: Oxymoron of Halogen Bond-Involving Crystal Engineering.

ABSTRACT: This review highlights recent studies discovering unconventional halogen bonding (HaB) that involves positively charged metal centers. These centers provide their filled d-orbitals for HaB, and thus behave as nucleophilic components toward the noncovalent interaction. This role of some electron-rich transition metal centers can be considered an oxymoron in the sense that the metal is, in most cases, formally cationic; consequently, its electron donor function is unexpected. The importance of Ha⋅⋅⋅d-[M] (Ha=halogen; M is Group 9 (Rh, Ir), 10 (Ni, Pd, Pt), or 11 (Cu, Au)) interactions in crystal engineering is emphasized by showing remarkable examples (reported and uncovered by our processing of the Cambridge Structural Database), where this Ha⋅⋅⋅d-[M] directional interaction guides the form

SUBMITTER: Ivanov DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9298210 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature