The ability of halogen-bond donors to form strong and directional intermolecular interactions remains integral to their prospects of becoming reliable synthetic tools for the bottom-up assembly of functional materials. An activation strategy involving three different electron-withdrawing groups in parallel, was employed in order to develop new halogen-bond donors possessing some of the highest σ-hole potentials reported to date.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.