Does the “chlorine” bond exist? Comparison of the properties of several π-electron-donor–acceptor complexes B⋅⋅⋅ClF and B⋅⋅⋅HCl (right and far right) reveals a parallelism that suggests that a “chlorine” bond, the analogue of a hydrogen bond, exists in B⋅⋅⋅ClF complexes.
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A. C. Legon (1998) studied this question.