We demonstrate the ultrafast photoinduced Mott transition from a charge transfer insulator to a metal in a halogen-bridged Ni-chain compound by pump-probe reflection spectroscopy. Upon the irradiation of a 130-femtosecond laser pulse, the spectral weight of the gap transition is transferred to the inner-gap region. When the photoexcitation density exceeds 0.1/Ni site, the Drude-like high-reflec...

In the title salt, (C(9)H(14)N)[CdBr(2)Cl], the Cd(II) atom is five-coordinated in a trigonal-bipyramidal coordination environment. All three of the halogen sites show disorder as a result of substitution of Cl for Br or Br for Cl. Two of the three halogen atoms are involved in bridging a pair of Cd(II) atoms, generating a linear polyanionic chain motif.

The title compound, C27H18Cl2N2O2, represents a racemic mixture of the corresponding R,R and S,S diastereomers. The isoxazoline ring adopts an envelope conformation with the spiro C atom deviating by 0.093 (2) Å from the rest of the ring. The six-membered keto-substituted carbocycle has a sofa conformation with the methyl-ene C atom adjacent to the spiro center deviating by 0.289 (2) Å from the...

Flexible organic materials possessing useful electrical properties, such as ferroelectricity, are of crucial importance in the engineering of electronic devices. Up until now, however, only ferroelectric polymers have intrinsically met this flexibility requirement, leaving small-molecule organic ferroelectrics with room for improvement. Since both flexibility and ferroelectricity are rare prope...

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C6H2Cl2INO2, there are weak C-H⋯Cl inter-actions and I⋯O [3.387 (4) Å] close contacts. These inter-actions form sheets in the ac plane, with the closest contact between adjacent planes occurring between inversion-related nitro O atoms [3.025 (8) Å]. The molecule possesses mirror symmetry, with the halogen, N and C atoms all lying in the mirror pla...