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A big hello to halogen bonding

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Halogen bonding connects a wide range of subjects — from materials science to structural biology, from computation to crystal engineering, and from synthesis to spectroscopy. The 1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding explored the state of the art in this fast-growing field of research.

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Figure 1: Some highlights from the ISXB-1 meeting.

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  1. Mate Erdelyi is in the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden,

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Erdelyi, M. A big hello to halogen bonding. Nature Chem 6, 762–764 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2042

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