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ArticleChirality2026

Beyond the Solid Solution: Ordered Enantiomerically Unbalanced Packing in Surface-Confined Tetrahelicene Monolayers.

Aleksandra Cebrat, Kevin Martin, Pingo Mutombo, Manfred Parschau, Narcis Avarvari, Karl-Heinz Ernst

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Article in Chirality, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

6 authors.

Aleksandra CebratEmpa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Kevin MartinUniv Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-Anjou, SFR MATRIX, Angers, France.
Pingo MutomboNanosurf Lab, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Manfred ParschauEmpa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Narcis AvarvariUniv Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-Anjou, SFR MATRIX, Angers, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-4494
Karl-Heinz ErnstEmpa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2077-4922

Funding

Grantová Agentura České Republiky 24-11064SSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 173720Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 182082Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 202775Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 212167Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 221265
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The two-dimensional crystallization and on-surface chemistry of chiral polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons provide access to surface-confined symmetry breaking and novel covalently bonded nanostructures. Here, we investigate the self-assembly of racemic 2,3-dicarbonitrile tetrahelicene on Ag(111). Using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy in combination with density functional theory calculations, we resolve the evolution of molecular organization as a function of coverage. After room-temperature deposition at submonolayer coverage, the tetrahelicene moiety spontaneously resolves into extended homochiral Kagomé domains upon cooling. The resulting monolayer consists of hexameric dimer motifs arranged in a porous network. These mirror-related supramolecular enantiomorphs are characteristic of two-dimensional conglomerate crystallization. As the surface coverage increases, the system undergoes a transition toward denser packing. At saturation, compact domains form that retains long-range lattice order while exhibiting a regular yet enantiomerically unbalanced distribution of both handednesses. The nonrandom incorporation of enantiomers distinguishes this phase from a racemic solid solution and instead indicates a compositionally biased, structurally ordered mixed phase.

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chiral crystallizationconglomeratehelicenesscanning tunneling microscopysolid solutionsurface science

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PMID42056394
PMCPMC13128537

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