Chirality Induced Crystal Structural Difference in Metal Halide Composites

Incorporating chiral organic compounds into metal halide frames is a common and useful method to introduce chirality in composites. The structures of resulting racemic composites are usually considered be nearly identical owing similar chemical bonding. In this work, by incorporating MBABr (bromide methylbenzylamine) an inorganic frame, significant crystallization difference between the observed, as confirmed both structural spectroscopic measurements. addition, transformation can also induced moisture, ascribed asymmetric hydrogen bonding materials. These results provide new insights for future synthesis materials open up possibilities advance functionalities.