Research progress in cation-π interactions

• 来源期刊: 中国科学B辑（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2008,（8）
• 页码范围: 709-717
• 页数: 9页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1007/s 11426-008-0082-8

摘要

Cation-π interaction is a potent intermolecular interaction between a cation and an aromatic system, which has been viewed as a new kind of binding force, as being compared with the classical interac-tions (e.g. hydrogen bonding, electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions). Cation-π interactions have been observed in a wide range of biological contexts. In this paper, we present an overview of the typi-cal cation-π interactions in biological systems, the experimental and theoretical investigations on cation-π interactions, as well as the research results on cation-π interactions in our group.