- Kotei, Patience;
- Paley, Daniel;
- Oklejas, Vanessa;
- Mittan-Moreau, David;
- Schriber, Elyse;
- Aleksich, Mariya;
- Willson, Maggie;
- Inoue, Ichiro;
- Owada, Shigeki;
- Tono, Kensuke;
- Sugahara, Michihiro;
- Inaba-Inoue, Satomi;
- Aquila, Andrew;
- Poitevin, Frédéric;
- Blaschke, Johannes;
- Lisova, Stella;
- Hunter, Mark;
- Sierra, Raymond;
- Gascón, José;
- Sauter, Nicholas;
- Brewster, Aaron;
- Hohman, J
Understanding how chemical modifications alter the atomic-scale organization of materials is of fundamental importance in materials engineering and the target of considerable efforts in computational prediction. Incorporating covalent and non-covalent interactions in designing crystals while piggybacking on the driving force of molecular self-assembly has augmented our efforts to understand the emergence of complex structures using directed synthesis. Here, we prepared microcrystalline powders of the silver 2-, 3-, and 4-fluorobenzenethiolates and resolved their structures by small molecule serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography (smSFX). These three compounds enable us to examine the emergence and role of supramolecular synthons in the crystal structures of three-dimensional metal-organic chalcogenolates (MOChas). The unique divergence in their optoelectronic, morphological, and structural behavior was assessed. The extent of C-H···F interactions and their influence on the structure and the observed trends in the thermal stability of the crystals were quantified through theoretical calculations and thermogravimetric analysis.