Stepwise Introduction of Dipole Blades into Triptycenes: Opening Variety of the Crystalline Molecular Packing Modes

Key Points

• The research aims to explore how the stepwise introduction of dipole blades affects the packing modes of triptycenes in crystalline structures.
• Single crystal XRD was utilized to analyze the crystalline structures post dipole introduction.
• Different quantities of difluorophenylene were incrementally added to examine changes in packing behavior.
• Comparative analysis was conducted on the resulting packing modes.
• The introduction of dipoles significantly altered the intermolecular packing arrangements.
• Various packing modes were observed with different numbers of dipole blades, indicating structural diversity.
• The findings suggest that dipole incorporation can be a strategy for tuning crystalline properties.