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Kirill Nikitin, Helge Mueller-Bunz, Declan G. Gilheany

Year

2013

Month

January

Journal

Chemical Communications

Title

Direct evidence of a multicentre halogen bond: unexpected contraction of the P-XXX-P fragment in triphenylphosphine dihalides

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1434

End Page

1436

Abstract

Triphenylhalophosphonium halides, Ph3PX2, form crystals comprising bridged linear cations [Ph3P-X-X-X-PPh3]+ where the X3 bridge is shortened from 6.56 Å in Cl-Cl-Cl to 6.37 Å in the Br-Br-Br system. It is proposed that this structure is stabilized by five-center/six-electron (5c-6e) hypervalent interactions.

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10.1039/c2cc38363b

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