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Pressure-induced Jahn-Teller switch in the homoleptic hybrid perovskite [(CH3)(2)NH2]Cu(HCOO)(3): orbital reordering by unconventional degrees of freedom

Scatena, R; Andrzejewski, M; Johnson, RD; Macchi, P; (2021) Pressure-induced Jahn-Teller switch in the homoleptic hybrid perovskite [(CH3)(2)NH2]Cu(HCOO)(3): orbital reordering by unconventional degrees of freedom. Journal of Materials Chemistry C , 25 10.1039/d1tc01966j. Green open access

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Abstract

Through in situ, high-pressure X-ray diffraction experiments we have shown that the homoleptic perovskite-like coordination polymer [(CH3)2NH2]Cu(HCOO)3 undergoes a pressure-induced orbital reordering phase transition above 5.20 GPa. This transition is distinct from previously reported Jahn–Teller switching in coordination polymers, which required at least two different ligands that crystallize in a reverse spectrochemical series. We show that the orbital reordering phase transition in [(CH3)2NH2]Cu(HCOO)3 is instead primarily driven by unconventional octahedral tilts and shifts in the framework, and/or a reconfiguration of A-site cation ordering. These structural instabilities are unique to the coordination polymer perovskites, and may form the basis for undiscovered orbital reorientation phenomena in this broad family of materials.

Type: Article
Title: Pressure-induced Jahn-Teller switch in the homoleptic hybrid perovskite [(CH3)(2)NH2]Cu(HCOO)(3): orbital reordering by unconventional degrees of freedom
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1039/d1tc01966j
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TC01966J
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10130843
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