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

Abstract

The ability of CH₃ groups to form helical chains of C–H‥π interactions with phenyl rings leads to polar stacking of trigonal octupolar networks in a substituted triazine, and therefore to three-dimensional non-centrosymmetry.

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