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From the journal Chemistry International Volume 46 Issue 3

Giuseppe Resnati, David L. Bryce, Gautam R. Desiraju, Antonio Frontera, Ingo Krossing, Anthony C. Legon, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Francesco Nicotra, Kari Rissanen, Steve Scheiner and Giancarlo Terraneo

Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2024

Vol. 96, no. 1, pp. 135-145

https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2020-1002

This recommendation proposes a definition for the term “pnictogen bond”; the term pnictogen bond designates a subset of the attractive interactions between an electrophilic region on a pnictogen atom in a molecular entity and a nucleophilic region in another, or the same, molecular entity.

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