Rod-like liquid crystals of organic transition metal complexes. I. Reversible transformation between blue smectogen and red nematogen |
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Authors: | Kazuchika Ohta Hiroshi Ema Yasue Morizumi Takuya Watanabe Tetsuya Fujimoto Iwao Yamamoto |
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a Department of Functional Polymer Science, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Ueda, Japan |
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Abstract: | Two novel types of transition-metal-containing liquid crystals, bis(p-n-koxydithiobenzoato)nickel(II) (abbreviated as (CnO-DTB)2Ni), and (p-n-alkoxydithiobenzoato)(p-n-alkoxyperthiobenzoato)nickel(II) (abbreviated as (CnO-DTB)(CnO-PTB)Ni), were synthesized. It was found that the (CnO-DTB)2Ni complex for n = 8 has smectic H and C mesophases, and that the (CnO-DTB)2Ni complexes for n = 4 and 8 easily transform into the corresponding monoperthio complexes, nO-PTB)Ni, by heating at temperatures between 230°C and 285°C. It was confirmed that the transformation originates from an intermolecular reaction between the (CnO-DTB)2Ni complexes at high temperatures, and that the origin of the extra sulphurs in the resulting (CnO-DTB)(CnO-PTB)Ni complexes is the neighbouring (CnO-DTB)2Ni complexes. Interestingly, each of the (CnO-DTB)(CnO-PTB)Ni complexes (n = 4 and 8), has nematic mesophase and exhibits a unique double melting behaviour via the nematic phase, which is the first example in liquid crystals. The reversible transformation between the blue smectic rod-like (CnO-DTB)2Ni complex and the red nematic Λ-like (CnO-DTB)(CnO-PTB)Ni complex is possible. |
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