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Preparation of novel banana-shaped triple helical liquid crystals by metal coordination
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Iqbal, Parvez, Mayanditheuar, Manickam, Childs, Laura J., Hannon, Michael J., Spencer, Neil, Ashton, Peter R. and Preece, Jon A. (2009) Preparation of novel banana-shaped triple helical liquid crystals by metal coordination. Materials, Volume 2 (Number 1). pp. 146-168. doi:10.3390/ma2010146 ISSN 1996-1944.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma2010146
Abstract
The synthesis of a series of banana-shaped structures has been carried out, in which the bend unit is formed by a 4,4’-methylenedianiline or 3,3’-methylenedianiline core bearing two symmetric pyridylimine linkages to di- and tri- alkoxyphenylester moieties on the side arms. The molecules, in addition to providing an elongated aromatic central core associated with liquid crystal (LC) molecules, also provide binding sites for metals. The methylenedianiline spacer incorporates phenylene groups that sterically prevent the two binding sites from co-ordinating to a single metal centre and the central methylene unit introduces enhanced flexibility into the ligand backbone. Furthermore, complexes have been formed by the co-ordination between 3, 3’-methylenedianiline containing ligands and Cu (I) ions [Cu2(3a-c)2][PF6]2. Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ESMS) and Fast Atom Bombardment Mass Spectrometry (FABMS) showed the formation of dimeric species; [Cu (L)2][PF6]2. Finally,thermal analysis of the ligands (1a-d, 2a-d, 3a-c and 4a-d) andCu complexes [Cu2(3a-c)2][PF6]2 has been carried out in order to investigate the phase properties of these materials. None of the banana-shaped ligands and the metal complexes [Cu2(3a-c)2][PF6]2 showed any mesophases.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Chemistry | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Liquid crystals -- Synthesis | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Materials | ||||||||
Publisher: | M D P I AG | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1996-1944 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 13 March 2009 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 2 | ||||||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 146-168 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.3390/ma2010146 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 December 2015 | ||||||||
Funder: | Leverhulme Trust (LT), Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), University of Warwick |
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