Halogen bonding can be used to recognize non-substituted carbon-only molecular fragments, in that way enabling the design of new, complex crystalline materials using "latent" carbon sites that for a long time appear to have been forgotten in crystal engineering. Details of this research are reported by Tomislav Friščić et al. in their Communication (e202408053).
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