Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 29, 2025

Ambient Method for the Production of an Ionically Gated Carbon Nanotube Common Cathode in Tandem Organic Solar Cells
Published on: November 5, 2014
Organic Cation-Directed Modulation of Emissions in Zero-Dimensional Hybrid Tin Bromides
Liming Zhang1,2, Zhishan Luo2, Wei Wang2
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China.
Abstract:
Zero-dimensional hybrid metal halides (0D HMHs) are attractive due to their intriguing self-trapped exciton (STE) emission properties. However, the effect of organic cations on the emission of 0D HMHs is relatively underexplored. Herein, we report two types of 0D hybrid tin bromides, (BMe)2SnBr6 (BMe = C8N2H18) and (MeH)2SnBr6 (MeH = C7N2H16), which share similar structural features with different hydrogen bonding (HB) interactions between [SnBr6]4- anions and organic cations. The (BMe)2SnBr6 with weak HB interactions exhibits only STE emission, while the (MeH)2SnBr6 exhibits both STE and charge transfer exciton emissions owing to the strong HB interactions, resulting in an excitation-dependent emission at cryogenic conditions. Detailed structural analyses and Hirshfeld surface calculations confirm that the enhanced HB interactions are essential to obtain the multiple emissions in (MeH)2SnBr6.
Related Concept Videos
Halogenation of Alkenes
Consider the bromination of cyclopentene. Molecular bromine is polarized in the proximity of the π electrons of cyclopentene. An electrophilic bromine atom adds across the double bond, forming a cyclic bromonium ion intermediate.
Radical Substitution: Hydrogenolysis of Alkyl Halides with Tributyltin Hydride
The bonds formed in this reaction are stronger than the bonds broken, making it energetically favorable. The reaction follows a radical chain mechanism similar to radical halogenation...
Valence Bond Theory
Properties of Organometallic Compounds
ortho–para-Directing Deactivators: Halogens
Structural Isomerism
Isomers are different chemical species that have the same chemical formula. Structural isomerism of coordination compounds can be divided into two subcategories, the linkage isomers and coordination-sphere isomers.
Linkage isomers occur when the coordination compound contains a ligand that can bind to the transition metal center through two different atoms. For example, the CN− ligand can bind through the carbon atom or through the nitrogen atom. Similarly, SCN− can...

