Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Giant single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformations associated with chiral interconversion induced by elimination of chelating ligands

  • Yun Li,
  • Bo Zhao,
  • Jin-Peng Xue,
  • Jing Xie,
  • Zi-Shuo Yao,
  • Jun Tao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27282-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Crystalline materials that undergo large structural changes in response to external stimuli remain rare. Here the authors report a Zinc(II) complex that undergoes a two-step reversible single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation via thermal removal of ethylene glycol chelating ligands; this results in large volume changes.