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SUBMITTER: Gomila RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9571139 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gomila Rosa M RM Frontera Antonio A
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20221005 19
The term matere bond has been recently used to refer to an attractive noncovalent interaction between any element of group 7 acting as an electrophile and any atom (or group of atoms) acting as a nucleophile. The utilization of metals such as σ-hole donors is starting to attract the attention of the scientific community. In this manuscript, a comparison between matere bonds and well-known σ-hole interactions (halogen and chalcogen bonds) is carried out using three X-ray structures, retrieved fro ...[more]