Read this HOT article today:
Anharmonic vibrations of the carboxyl group in acetic acid on TiO2: implications for adsorption mode assignment in dye-sensitized solar cells
Matthew Chan, Tucker Carrington and Sergei Manzhos
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP00065F
This article will be included in our upcoming themed issue on spectroscopy and dynamics of medium-sized molecules and clusters: theory, experiment and applications.
A prize ceremony was held at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan for the winners of the 2013 PCCP Prizes for Outstanding Achievement of Young Scientists in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics. The winners each received a commemorative book, a PCCP Prize certificate and a financial award.
Top left to top right: Prof. Eiichi Nakamura, Mr Nobuyuki Kawashima (CSJ Secretary General). Bottom left to bottom right: Dr Robert Parker (RSC Chief Executive), Dr Yasuhide Inokuma (Prizewinner), Dr Yusuke Yamauchi (Prizewinner), Dr Yasutomo Segawa (Prizewinner), Prof. Kohei Tamao (CSJ President).
The prizewinners:
Peter Politzer, Jane Murray and Timothy Clark review sigma-hole bonding in their recent PCCP Perspective and its contribution to the understanding of the halogen bond and other non-covalent interactions. They detail the historic background of the concept of sigma-hole bonding from both experimental and theoretical perspectives, and present the most recent theoretical findings on the fascinating character of this class of molecular interactions.
Read this Perspective today:
Halogen bonding and other σ-hole interactions: a perspective
Peter Politzer, Jane S. Murray and Timothy Clark
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP00054K
