{"title":"Electrostatic landscapes in crystal engineering: a new perspective on synthons","authors":"Alexander S. Novikov","doi":"10.1107/S2052252525003148","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The design of crystalline solids relies on understanding and controlling intermolecular and intramolecular interactions. Through theoretical charge density analysis and database mining, Shukla <em>et al.</em> [(2025). <em>IUCrJ</em>, <strong>12</strong>, 334–357] have found a new way of viewing supramolecular assembly through the lens of electrostatic complementarity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14775,"journal":{"name":"IUCrJ","volume":"12 3","pages":"Pages 255-256"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IUCrJ","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S2052252525000284","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The design of crystalline solids relies on understanding and controlling intermolecular and intramolecular interactions. Through theoretical charge density analysis and database mining, Shukla et al. [(2025). IUCrJ, 12, 334–357] have found a new way of viewing supramolecular assembly through the lens of electrostatic complementarity.
期刊介绍:
IUCrJ is a new fully open-access peer-reviewed journal from the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).
The journal will publish high-profile articles on all aspects of the sciences and technologies supported by the IUCr via its commissions, including emerging fields where structural results underpin the science reported in the article. Our aim is to make IUCrJ the natural home for high-quality structural science results. Chemists, biologists, physicists and material scientists will be actively encouraged to report their structural studies in IUCrJ.