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Dougherty
editI have replaced references of "Daugherty" to "Dougherty" assuming that the authors intended to refer to Dennis A. Dougherty. If there's someone else named "Daugherty", please clarify. Crystal whacker (talk) 15:33, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Merge proposal
editMost recent ref (x2) is 2008, so this thing is dated. Maybe "split" would be a better proposal, or even "redistribute". Pi-interaction is a well intentioned but vague even semi-random collection of topics. This lightly edited article was created many years ago by what appears to be a homework assignment. Such assignments when unsupervised are often flops. Further comments:
- Many of the interactions in this article are not pi-interactions in the symmetry sense but interactions of various things with pi-systems.
- Some of content could be shifted to Pi-stacking and Supramolecular chemistry and charge-transfer complex (TCNE + arene)
- The organometallic subsection is too superficial and we cover that material intensely in focused articles. Organometallic chemists do not discuss the bonding as (only) "pi-interactions". Furthermore, these "interactions" are not weak, but real bonds with BDE's well above 20 kcal. I removed this part already.
- The small section "π-effects in biological systems" seems meandering essay: No pi-interactions are key to radical SAMs.
- move the anion --- arene to Cation–π interaction as counter example?
Overall, I think that someone trying to learn chemical concepts would not benefit from this article.
Unknowns:
- What to do with H2O---arene part.
- we would convert this article into a redirect.... to what? Maybe supramolecular chemistry?