Crystalline molecular rotors constitute a new class of stimuli-responsive molecular materials owing to inherent molecular dynamics. However, beyond the molecular level, the role of molecular packings on the bulk structures and related properties has yet to be fully understood. Herein, we report a crystalline molecular rotor showing solvent-induced structural transformation and luminescence response. The molecular rotor has a dumbbell shape with two plates as the stators and one axial bridging ligand as the rotator. The crystals adopt solvated and desolvated forms with strikingly different packing structures. The solvated forms can easily transform into the desolvated form. During the structure transformation, the butterfly-like conformation of the stator undergoes a drastic dihedral angle change of about 30°, resulting in a luminescent change of about 10 nm. These findings afford a new aspect for functional molecular rotor materials.
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