Chirality in molecular conductors from enantiopure or racemic coordination complexes

Martin, L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5330-5700, Wallis, JD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7259-8783 and Ogar, JO ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2115-2885, 2025. Chirality in molecular conductors from enantiopure or racemic coordination complexes. Dalton Transactions. ISSN 1477-9226

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Abstract

There has been growing interest in recent years in the synthesis of multifunctional materials that exhibit both chirality and electrical conductivity. These materials can exhibit electrical magnetochiral anisotropy (eMChA) or the chirality induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. Several families of chiral tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)-based donor molecules have been successfully used with acceptors or simple anions to prepare chiral molecular conductors. Chiral materials have also been obtained by employing racemic or enantiopure counter anions with chiral or achiral TTF donors. Most recently, enantiopure molecular conductors of bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene (BEDT-TTF) and 2,5-bis(1,3-dithiolan-2-ylidene)-1,3,4,6-tetrathiapentalene (BDH-TTP) have been obtained through chiral induction from a racemic mixture of a coordination complex, which provides the anion. This Frontier article provides an overview of chiral molecular conductors and a summary of progress to date. It highlights future perspectives on how chirality can be introduced into molecular conductors by employing enantiopure or racemic coordination complexes, which also have the potential to introduce magnetism into the multifunctional material.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Dalton Transactions
Creators:	Martin, L., Wallis, J.D. and Ogar, J.O.
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date:	12 March 2025
ISSN:	1477-9226
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1039/d5dt00249d DOI 2403612 Other
Rights:	© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2025. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	13 Mar 2025 09:24
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2025 09:24
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53235

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