Point-to-Volume Engineering Enables Enhanced Birefringence and Wide Bandgap in Hybrid Halide Ultraviolet Nonlinear Optical Crystals
Wu, Jiajing; Li, Ruo-Nan; Yao, Wen-Dong; Fu, Yi-Fan; Guo, Sheng-Ping; Chemical Science  (2026) –; doi:10.1039/D6SC00466K

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_publ_section_title
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 Point-to-Volume Engineering Enables Enhanced Birefringence and Wide
 Bandgap in Hybrid Halide Ultraviolet Nonlinear Optical Crystals
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_journal_name_full               'Chemical Science'
_journal_paper_doi               10.1039/D6SC00466K
_journal_year                    2026
_chemical_formula_moiety         'Cl4 Zn, C4 H13 N5'
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_chemical_formula_weight         338.36
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Olex2 1.5
(compiled 2021.12.09 svn.r5202d8cf for OlexSys, GUI svn.r6498)
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_audit_update_record
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2026-01-11 deposited with the CCDC.	2026-04-16 downloaded from the CCDC.
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_cell_angle_alpha                90
_cell_angle_beta                 98.816(3)
_cell_angle_gamma                90
_cell_formula_units_Z            2
_cell_length_a                   6.8052(6)
_cell_length_b                   6.9176(5)
_cell_length_c                   14.1930(12)
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_diffrn_radiation_monochromator  graphite
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_diffrn_reflns_av_unetI/netI     0.0395
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_diffrn_source_power             0.05
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_exptl_absorpt_process_details
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SADABS-2016/2 (Bruker,2016/2) was used for absorption correction.
wR2(int) was 0.1545 before and 0.0654 after correction.
The Ratio of minimum to maximum transmission is 0.7664.
The \l/2 correction factor is Not present.
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_exptl_crystal_colour            'clear light colourless'
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 Refined as an inversion twin.
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'w=1/[\s^2^(Fo^2^)+(0.0149P)^2^] where P=(Fo^2^+2Fc^2^)/3'
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_cod_data_source_block           lrn25111601_0m
_cod_database_code               1577109
_shelx_shelxl_version_number     2018/3
_olex2_refinement_description
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1. Twinned data refinement
 Scales: 0.973(12)
 0.027(12)
2. Fixed Uiso
 At 1.2 times of:
  All N(H) groups, All N(H,H) groups
 At 1.5 times of:
  All C(H,H,H) groups
3.a Aromatic/amide H refined with riding coordinates:
 N3(H3)
3.b X=CH2 refined with riding coordinates:
 N1(H1A,H1B), N2(H2A,H2B), N4(H4A,H4B)
3.c Idealised Me refined as rotating group:
 C4(H4C,H4D,H4E), C3(H3A,H3B,H3C)
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_shelx_res_checksum              25936
_olex2_submission_special_instructions 'No special instructions were received'