This review highlights recent studies discovering unconventional halogen bonding (HaB)
that involves positively charged metal centers. These centers provide their filled d‐orbitals …

Conspectus The development of homogeneous catalysts is strongly connected to the design
of new, sophisticated ligands, which resolve limitations of a given reaction protocol by …

The practical use of luminescent mononuclear gold (I) complexes as optoelectronic
materials has been limited by their inferior stability. Herein we demonstrate a strategy to …

Black phosphorus (BP) has attracted considerable attention due to the outstanding
mechanical and structural properties. However, the nanoscale frictional properties and …

Despite the unique position of gold catalysis in contemporary organic synthesis, this area of
research is notorious for requiring activators and/or additives that enable catalysis by …

Gold catalysis has emerged as an efficient tool in the field of synthetic organic chemistry.
Despite the significant progress, the need for high catalyst loadings has mainly hampered its …

This study described palladium-catalyzed chemoselective direct α-arylation of carbonyl
compounds with chloroaryl triflates in the Ar–Cl bond. The Pd/SelectPhos system showed …

Among the known types of non-covalent interactions with a Au (I) metal center, Au (I)
involving halogen bonding (XB) remains a rare phenomenon that has not been studied …

The effects of deviations from nonlinearity around the carbonyl proton acceptor of an amide
group are assessed by DFT quantum chemical calculations for both CH·· O and NH·· O H …

Abstract Au⋅⋅⋅ H− X (X= N or C) hydrogen bonding is gaining increasing interest, both in
the study of its intrinsic nature and in their operability in different fields. While the role of …