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Zheng Zhang1, Mingyu Xu2, Jose L Gonzalez Jimenez2
1Department of Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana70118, United States.
Abstract:
Incorporating chiral organic cations into organic-inorganic hybrid materials has been shown to enable the inorganic sublattice to display chiroptical properties. We report a new two-dimensional magnetic (S = 1/2) chiral metal halide perovskite, (R)- and (S)-(C4H9FN)2CuCl4 (where (C4H9FN)+ is 3-fluoropyrrolidinium), which consists of Cu-Cl inorganic layers separated by (C4H9FN)+ organic cations. The presence of the chiral (C4H9FN)+ organic cation induces the formation of chiral magnetic order, even though the inorganic sublattice itself is nearly structurally centrosymmetric. We also report the racemic variant, containing an equal amount of (R)- and (S)- cations, which shows no evidence of chiral magnetic order. When the magnetic susceptibility is measured perpendicular to the inorganic Cu-Cl layer propagation direction, an antiferromagnetic phase transition at Néel temperature TN = 2.23 K is observed in both the chiral and racemic materials, and the existence of the magnetic phase transition is supported by specific heat capacity measurements. Field-induced magnetic chirality is observed through the existence of a second-order magnetoelectric effect in the chiral variant, while no magnetoelectric signal is observed for the racemic material, indicating the absence of magnetic chirality. Our findings demonstrate that materials exhibiting chiral magnetic order can be created through the incorporation of a chiral cation into an organic-inorganic hybrid magnetic material, potentially allowing for the design of tailored materials that combine chiral magnetism with other desirable optical and electronic properties that come from structural chirality.
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