Tuning the dimensionality in chiral and racemic organic/tin hybrids with halides.

Chiral 1D tin iodides EBASnI 3 were synthesized while incorporating enantiomerically pure and racemic ethylbenzylammonium (EBA) cations between the 1D shared inorganic corners. The dimensionality was reduced to 0D when replacing iodine with bromine. In all the cases, the presence of hydrogen bonds was observed between the organic part and the inorganic part, while transfer of chirality was evidenced for the EBASnI 3 enantiomerically pure compounds.