BSN Seminar: Dissecting interactions in solution

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• Dr Scott Cockroft, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
• Tuesday 31 October 2017, 14:00-15:00
• Haworth 203.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti.

BSN Seminar hosted by Prof. James Tucker

The study of non-covalent interactions is often complicated by their fundamentally weak nature and the role of solvent effects. This talk will illustrate how synthetic molecular torsion balances [1-3,5-8] and supramolecular complexes [4] can be used to quantify difficult-to-study interactions including van der Waals dispersion forces [2-3], aromatic stacking [4], hydrogen-bonding cooperativity [5], orbital delocalization in chalcogen-bonding interactions [6], solvent [7-8], and solvophobic effects [9]. I will show how the information gleaned from such studies can be used to develop our theoretical understanding of molecular recognition phenomenon.

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This talk is part of the School of Chemistry Seminars series.

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