摘要
The CH/蟺 hydrogen bond is the weakest extreme of hydrogen bonds that occurs between a soft acid CH and a soft base 蟺-system. Implication in chemistry of the CH/蟺 hydrogen bond includes issues of conformation, crystal packing, and specificity in host/guest complexes. The result obtained by analyzing the Cambridge Structural Database is reviewed. The peculiar axial preference of isopropyl group in 伪-phellandrene and folded conformation of levopimaric acid have been explained in terms of the CH/蟺 hydrogen bond, by high-level ab initio MO calculations. Implication of the CH/蟺 hydrogen bond in structural biology is also discussed, briefly.