The aggregation of (pro)chiral/achiral molecules into crystalline structures at interfaces forms conglomerates, racemates, and solid solutions, comparable to known bulk phases. Scanning tunneling microscopy and Monte Carlo simulations were employed to uncover a distinct racemic phase, expressing 1D disordered chiral sorting through random tiling in surface-confined supramolecularly assembled achiral 4,4''-diethynyl-1,1':4',1''-terphenyl molecules. The configurational entropy of the 1D disordered racemic tiling phase was verified by analytical modeling, and found to lie between that of a perfectly ordered 2D racemate and a racemic solid solution.
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