A three-component molecular cocrystal material has been prepared by a solvent-free route involving mechanical grinding of the pure phases of the individual components. This material is not accessible from conventional solution-state crystallization procedures. Due to the fact that the grinding procedure intrinsically leads to a microcrystalline powder sample, the use of powder X-ray diffraction data is essential for structure determination. This work emphasizes the scope and utility of ab initio structure solution directly from powder X-ray diffraction data for carrying out structural characterization of new materials prepared via the solid-state grinding route, leading to the opportunity to establish structure-property relationships for such materials.

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Co-grinding of crystals of racemic-bis-beta-naphthol (rac-BN) and benzoquinone (BQ) produces a novel crystal adduct through crystal sheering and molecular diffusion processes in the solid state, which is structurally distinct from adducts obtained from solution or melt.

The solution-dispersed-state and polymer-dispersed-state circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) properties of chiral binaphthyl fluorophores could be controlled by the choice of open- or closed-type substituents on the binaphthyl units and by the axial chirality of the binaphthyls.