“…Intermolecular noncovalent interactions bear an immense technological potential owing to their versatile capability of construction of various complex supramolecular architectures which have found application in drug delivery, [1][2][3] materials engineering, 4,5 catalysis, 6,7 sensors, 6,[8][9][10] biological chemistry, [11][12][13] and many others. [14][15][16] Some prominent noncovalent interactions includes hydrogen bonding (HB), [17][18][19][20][21][22] halogen bonding (XB), 23,24 π-π interaction, [25][26][27] metal ion coordination, [28][29][30][31] hydrophobic interaction, [32][33][34][35] donor-acceptor interaction, [36][37][38] and so on. Among these noncovalent interactions, especially in the solution, XB is considered the least explored despite their promising potential in supramolecular chemistry applications.…”