Chemical Bonding in Organic Compounds
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Organic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 8798
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organometallic chemistry of Pd and Pt; homogeneous catalysis; non-covalent interactions; azaheterocycles
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Dear Colleagues,
The concept of a chemical bond in organic compounds has a history spanning more than 160 years. Kekulé, Lewis, Langmuir, Polling, Woodward, Hoffmann, Dewar, and many others created the concepts that organic chemists still use to qualitatively describe the bonds in organic compounds. In the field of the quantitative description of the structure of organic compounds, another revolution occurred in the 1990s with the widespread use of density-functional theory (DFT) methods in organic chemistry.
The quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) advanced the development of the concept of chemical bonding in organic compounds. Although this theory has certain drawbacks and limitations, it is currently a generally accepted and indispensable tool for the theoretical study of an important area of modern organic chemistry: non-covalent interactions. In recent decades, the main experimental efforts of scientists working in the field of chemical bonding in organic and organometallic compounds have been focused on the study of non-covalent interactions (hydrogen, halogen, chalcogen, pnictogen, tetrel bonding, π–π stacking interaction, π-hole interaction, etc.). This is no coincidence. Many of these interactions determine the properties and behavior of organic molecules at both the molecular and supramolecular levels. The formed non-covalent bonds have found applications in organic synthesis, catalysis, supramolecular chemistry, material design, medicinal chemistry, etc.
Due to this development in the field of chemical bonding research in organic compounds, the main goal of this Special iIsue is to collect theoretical and experimental studies devoted to the features of non-covalent interactions with the participation of organic compounds.
Prof. Dr. Vadim P. Boyarskiy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- non-covalent interactions
- π-hole interaction
- tetrel bond
- QTAIM
