Electron deficiency, experimental evaluation

Experimental Evaluation of Groimd-State Electron Deficiency 150... 

Experimental Evaluation of Ground-Stale Electron Deficiency... 

The last paragraph of a chapter like this one asks the writer to predict if the non-covalent interaction of anions with jt-system will be as important and useful as the nowadays well-established cation-n interaction. We are cautious in answering this question affirmatively, but we have to confess that we are currently working in the construction of synthetic receptors for anions that do incorporate electron deficient ir-aromatic systems. We hope that our designs will be valuable for the experimental evaluation of the anion-JT interaction in solution and we will report shortly our findings. Once the strength of the anion-jt interaction in solution is determined, it will be easier to evaluate its possible use in the construction of selective receptors for anions making use of the directionality properties that we have discussed in the chapter. 

Nebhani, L., SinnweU, S., Lin, C. Y. ct al. (2009a) Strongly electron deficient sulfonyldithioformate based RAFT agents for hetero Diels-Alder conjugation computational design and experimental evaluation. Journal of Polymer Science Part A-Polymer Chemistry, 47,6053. 

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