Abstract <p>Single-molecule toroics (SMTs) hold great promise for quantum information science and multiferroics due to their magnetically silent, electric-field-controllable ground states. However, in conventional systems, opposite toroidal handedness (clockwise and anticlockwise spin vortices) degenerate, resulting in a racemic mixture that cancels out macroscopically. Recently, in <i>Nature Chemistry</i>, Tang and co-workers reported a major breakthrough by synthesising enantiopure triangular dysprosium {Dy<sub>3</sub>} complexes, in which axial chirality in the organic ligand framework lifts the toroidal degeneracy. This structural symmetry-breaking resulted in a single, homochiral toroidal spin state at both the molecular and unit-cell levels. Probed through single-crystal micro-SQUID magnetometry and magneto-chiral dichroism (MChD) spectroscopy, this work marks the first realisation of a structurally sealected homochiral toroidal ground state, laying the foundation for macroscopic, field-switchable Toroidic and Ferrotoroidic materials.</p> Graphical abstract <p>Molecular chirality breaks spin degeneracy, enabling controllable homochiral toroidal states and opening new opportunities for quantum information and magnetoelectric molecular materials.</p>

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A chiral route to controlling spin chirality

  • Deepanshu Chauhan,
  • Gopalan Rajaraman

摘要

Abstract

Single-molecule toroics (SMTs) hold great promise for quantum information science and multiferroics due to their magnetically silent, electric-field-controllable ground states. However, in conventional systems, opposite toroidal handedness (clockwise and anticlockwise spin vortices) degenerate, resulting in a racemic mixture that cancels out macroscopically. Recently, in Nature Chemistry, Tang and co-workers reported a major breakthrough by synthesising enantiopure triangular dysprosium {Dy3} complexes, in which axial chirality in the organic ligand framework lifts the toroidal degeneracy. This structural symmetry-breaking resulted in a single, homochiral toroidal spin state at both the molecular and unit-cell levels. Probed through single-crystal micro-SQUID magnetometry and magneto-chiral dichroism (MChD) spectroscopy, this work marks the first realisation of a structurally sealected homochiral toroidal ground state, laying the foundation for macroscopic, field-switchable Toroidic and Ferrotoroidic materials.

Graphical abstract

Molecular chirality breaks spin degeneracy, enabling controllable homochiral toroidal states and opening new opportunities for quantum information and magnetoelectric molecular materials.