The first two examples of halogen bonding with a sigma hole-donating fluorine in the Csp3-FOsp3 interaction from polyfluorinated trans-dihalo-palladium(ii) di-substituted pyridine complexes

Vijayanath Elakkat; Chu-Chun Chang; Jun-Yu Chen; Yung-Cheng Fang; Chia-Rui Shen; Ling-Kung Liu; Norman Lu

doi:10.1039/c9cc06731k

The first two examples of halogen bonding with a sigma hole-donating fluorine in the C_sp³-FO_sp³ interaction from polyfluorinated trans-dihalo-palladium(ii) di-substituted pyridine complexes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Nov 26;55(95):14259-14262. doi: 10.1039/c9cc06731k.

Authors

Vijayanath Elakkat¹, Chu-Chun Chang, Jun-Yu Chen, Yung-Cheng Fang, Chia-Rui Shen, Ling-Kung Liu, Norman Lu

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Organic and Polymeric Materials, National Taipei Univ of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan. normanlu@mail.ntut.edu.tw.

PMID: 31656962
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc06731k

Abstract

The first two examples of halogen bonding in the Csp3-FOsp3 interaction have been both experimentally and theoretically proved for trans-[PdX2(3-HCF2CF2CH2OCH2py)2] complexes where X = Cl and Br. Both metal complexes with a Csp3-FOsp3 halogen bond have a σ hole donating fluorine.