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Achiral phosphonium induced remarkable circular polarized luminescence in a chiral cadmium(II) halide perovskite
Shubhankar Barman1, Priya Ranjan1, Anuja Datta1,2
1School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A and 2B Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India. psuad4@iacs.res.in.
Abstract:
Circular polarized luminescence (CPL) sensitive two-dimensional organic inorganic halide perovskites have versatile applications in optical displays, encrypted transmission and quantum communications. Here, a new chiral hybrid [MePh3P]2CdCl4 (PCC) single crystal (SC) is synthesized using an achiral phosphonium cation by a solvent evaporation process at room temperature (rt). SC x-ray study reveals a non-centrosymmetric point group 23, with 21-screw optical axes providing a chiral Sohncke space group. Hirshfeld surface analysis suggests long-range H-bonding and ionic interactions (~ 3-9 kJ mol-1) and short-range Van der Waals and dispersion interactions (∼0.4-4 kJ mol-1). Both the PCC thin films and SCs exhibit prominent circular dichroism (CD) and remarkably superior CPL activity at rt (|gCD| ≈ 5 × 10-3 and |glum| ≈ 4.3 × 10-2).
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