Steering non-centrosymmetry into the third dimension: crystal engineering of an octupolar nonlinear optical crystal

Venkat R. Thalladi, Roland Boese, Sophie Brasselet, Isabelle Ledoux, Joseph Zyss, Ram K. R. Jetti, Gautam R. Desiraju
1999 Chemical Communications  
The ability of CH 3 groups to form helical chains of C-H...p interactions with phenyl rings leads to polar stacking of trigonal octupolar networks in a substituted triazine, and therefore to three-dimensional non-centrosymmetry.
doi:10.1039/a904490f fatcat:g5l4bjweurd3tcerjklyjsnv7e