S. Subramanian et Mj. Zaworotko, EXPLOITATION OF THE HYDROGEN-BOND - RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CRYSTAL ENGINEERING, Coordination chemistry reviews, 137, 1994, pp. 357-401
The desire to design rationally technologically useful solid-slate mat
erials has coupled with our ever growing understanding of the nature o
f non-covalent intermolecular interactions and molecular recognition p
rocesses (i.e. supramolecular chemistry) to provide impetus for the em
ergence of crystal engineering. The ''golden rule'' of crystal enginee
ring is that one has to assume that the architecture within crystals,
and therefore the space group in which a given compound crystallizes,
is determined solely by the strength and directionality of intermolecu
lar or interionic interactions. In other words, most crystal structure
s can be regarded as de facto manifestations of self-assembly. The obj
ective of this review is to provide chemists from all disciplines with
an overview of recent developments in the held with particular emphas
is on how symmetry and function at the molecular level can be used to
control solid-state architecture. Hydrogen bonding represents perhaps
the best understood non-covalent force and is one of the primary tools
available to crystal engineers so it is also a focus of the review. D
evelopments in all areas of chemistry subsequent to 1988 are highlight
ed, but we also cite earlier literature that deals specifically with h
ydrogen bonding in the context of long-range ordering of molecules or
ions.