Electrochemical controlling and monitoring of halogen bond formation in solution

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Dec 4;50(93):14616-9. doi: 10.1039/c4cc04134h.

Abstract

Cyclic voltammetry has been used for the first time to probe and to control the formation of non-covalent halogen bonding (XB) via redox switching. These results strongly encourage the use of electrochemistry as an economical and precisely controllable tool for the investigation of XB in solution.