Gulliver in the Country of Lilliput: An Interplay of Noncovalent Interactions (Volume II)

Dear Colleagues,

Noncovalent interactions are the bridge between the ideal gas abstraction and the real world. In the past, most studies were limited to the analysis of the single strongest interaction in a molecular system under consideration, which was held responsible for the most important structural properties of the system. The current challenge is to go beyond this limitation.

The first edition of the Special Issue “Gulliver in the Country of Lilliput: An Interplay of Noncovalent Interactions” (2020) was very successful:

https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/26/1/158

It was published as a standalone book: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book/3554 .

The second edition of this Special Issue will collect ideas on how to study the interplay of noncovalent interactions in complex molecular systems, including the effects of cooperation and anti-cooperation, solvation, reaction fields, steric hindrance, intermolecular dynamics, and other weak but numerous impacts on molecular conformation, chemical reactivity, and condensed matter structure. Publications about the experimental manifestations of these effects or their theoretical analysis are cordially invited.

The following five leading contributions initiate this flow of ideas:

Prof. Dr. Martin Suhm (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany): "Vibrational spectroscopy of flavors: Microsolvation preferences of piperonal".

Prof. Dr. Jan Lundell (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): "Revisiting vibrational spectroscopy of the H₂O...CO complex".

Prof. Dr. Chiara Cappelli (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy): "Modeling H-bond in solvation".

Prof. Dr. Constantinos C. Stoumpo (University of Crete, Greece).

Prof. Dr. Rene Wugt Larsen and Dr. Dmytro Mihrin (Technical University of Denmark).

Dr. Ilya G. Shenderovich
Guest Editor

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