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Hydrogen and Halogen Bonding:

• S. C. C. van der Lubbe, F. Zaccaria, X. Sun, C. Fonseca Guerra, Secondary Electrostatic Interaction Model Revised: Prediction Comes Mainly from Measuring Charge Accumulation in Hydrogen-Bonded Monomers,  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 4878-4885

• S. C. C. van der Lubbe, C. Fonseca Guerra,  Hydrogen bond strength of CC and GG pairs is determined by steric repulsion: electrostatics and charge transfer overruled,  Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 10249-10253


DNA-metal interactions:

• F. Zaccaria, C. Fonseca Guerra, RNA vs DNA G-Quadruplex: the origin of increased stability, Chem. Eur. J.  201824, 16315-16322

• F. Zaccaria, G. Paragi, C. Fonseca Guerra, The Role of Alkali Metal Cations in the Stabilization of Guanine Quadruplexes: Why K+ is the best, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 201618, 20895-20904


Aurophilicity:

• M. B. Brands, J. Nitsch, C. Fonseca Guerra, Relevance of Orbital Interactions and Pauli Repulsion in the Metal-Metal Bond of Coinage Metals, Inorg. Chem. 201857, 2603-2608








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