A two-dimensional
(2D) organic conductor β″-(BEDT-TTF)2ClC2H4SO3 (1) crystallized
in the P21/m and has
a polar anion located on the mirror plane, parallel to the
2D BEDT-TTF conducting layer. A temperature-induced phase transition
tilts the anion such that a component of its electric dipole becomes
perpendicular to the conducting plane. This low-temperature phase
β″-β′′-(BEDT-TTF)2ClC2H4SO3 (1L) has two crystallographically
independent donor layers, A and B, each of which is bordered by the
positive or negative side of the anion’s dipole (← B
→ A ← B → A ←). This exposes each donor
layer to different effective electric fields and leads to layers of
A and B with dissimilar oxidation states. Consequently, the transition
can be called the temperature-induced non-doped-to-doped transition.
The low-temperature phase (1L) is isomorphous with β″-β′′-(BEDT-TTF)2BrC2H4SO3 (2) from room temperature to at least 100 K, suggesting that 2 is also doped and it shows a very broad MI transition at
70 K. Applying only 2 kbar of static pressure sharpens the MI transition,
indicating that the tilted anion straightens, and therefore, we suggest
that it can be termed a pressure-induced doped-to-non-doped transition.