# halogen bond

> occurs when there is evidence of a net attractive interaction between an electrophilic region associated with a halogen atom in a molecular entity and a nucleophilic region in another, or the same, molecular entity

**Wikidata**: [Q1193318](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1193318)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halogen_bond)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/halogen-bond


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. BabelNet
3. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)