Structural competition between halogen bonds and lone-pair···π interactions in solution is studied using (13)C NMR combined with density functional theory calculations. Among the halogen bonds considered, only the iodine bonds and a few bromine bonds are strong enough to compete successfully with the lone-pair···π interactions.
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