Anthony C. Legon

Research.com Recognitions

• 2012 - Liversidge Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
• 2000 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
• 1989 - Tilden Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Best Publications

• Definition of the hydrogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)

  Elangannan Arunan;Gautam R. Desiraju;Roger A. Klein;Joanna Sadlej

  2179
  Citations

• Definition of the halogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)

  Gautam R. Desiraju;P. Shing Ho;Lars Kloo;Anthony C. Legon

  2034
  Citations

• Defining the hydrogen bond: An account (IUPAC Technical Report)

  Elangannan Arunan;Gautam R. Desiraju;Roger A. Klein;Joanna Sadlej

  1179
  Citations

• Prereactive Complexes of Dihalogens XY with Lewis Bases B in the Gas Phase: A Systematic Case for the Halogen Analogue B⋅⋅⋅XY of the Hydrogen Bond B⋅⋅⋅HX

  Anthony C. Legon

  710
  Citations

• The halogen bond: an interim perspective

  Anthony C. Legon

  648
  Citations

• Halogen Bonding: A New Interaction for Liquid Crystal Formation

  H. Loc Nguyen;Peter N. Horton;Michael B. Hursthouse;and Anthony C. Legon

  529
  Citations

• Definition of the chalcogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)

  Christer B. Aakeroy;David L. Bryce;Gautam R. Desiraju;Antonio Frontera

  515
  Citations

• Gas-phase spectroscopy and the properties of hydrogen-bonded dimers. HCN.cntdot..cntdot..cntdot.HF as the spectroscopic prototype

  A. C. Legon;D. J. Millen

  369
  Citations

• Angular geometries and other properties of hydrogen-bonded dimers: a simple electrostatic interpretation of the success of the electron-pair model

  A. C. Legon;D. J. Millen

  332
  Citations

• Tetrel, pnictogen and chalcogen bonds identified in the gas phase before they had names: a systematic look at non-covalent interactions

  Anthony C Legon

  290
  Citations

• Equilibrium conformations of four- and five-membered cyclic molecules in the gas phase: determination and classification

  A. C. Legon

  273
  Citations

• Directional character, strength, and nature of the hydrogen bond in gas-phase dimers

  A. C. Legon;D. J. Millen

  273
  Citations

• The rotational spectrum and molecular structure of the acetylene–HCl dimer

  A. C. Legon;P. D. Aldrich;W. H. Flygare

  229
  Citations

• Pulsed-Nozzle, Fourier-Transform Microwave Spectroscopy of Weakly Bound Dimers

  A C Legon

  217
  Citations

• Determination of properties of hydrogen-bonded dimers by rotational spectroscopy and a classfication of dimer geometries

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  207
  Citations

• Hydrogen bonding as a probe of electron densities: limiting gas-phase nucleophilicities and electrophilicities of B and HX

  A. C. Legon;D. J. Millen

  188
  Citations

• π‐Electron “Donor–Acceptor” Complexes B⋅⋅⋅ClF and the Existence of the “Chlorine Bond”

  A. C. Legon

  182
  Citations

• The nature of ammonium and methylammonium halides in the vapour phase: hydrogen bonding versus proton transfer

  A. C. Legon

  180
  Citations

• The microwave rotational spectrum, molecular geometry, 14N nuclear quadrupole coupling constants, and H, 19F nuclear spin–nuclear spin coupling constant of the nitrogen–hydrogen fluoride dimer

  P. D. Soper;A. C. Legon;W. G. Read;W. H. Flygare

  162
  Citations

• The rotational spectrum, H, 19F nuclear spin–nuclear spin coupling, D nuclear quadrupole coupling, and molecular geometry of a weakly bound dimer of carbon monoxide and hydrogen fluoride

  A. C. Legon;P. D. Soper;W. H. Flygare

  161
  Citations

• The rotational spectrum, structure, and molecular properties of the ethylene–HCl dimer

  P. D. Aldrich;A. C. Legon;W. H. Flygare

  153
  Citations

• Spectroscopic investigations of hydrogen bonding interactions in the gas phase. I. The determination of the geometry, dissociation energy, potential constants and electric dipole moment of the hydrogen-bonded heterodimer HCN • • • HF from its microwave rotational spectrum

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  111
  Citations