Bisazomethine dyes with terminal alkyl substituents of different chain lengths (BAR: R= 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) were synthesized and deposited on a glass substrate to investigate the effect of the alkyl chain length on aggregate formation. Methyl-and ethyl-substituted bisazomethine dyes (BA1 and BA2) formed J-aggregates in thin films (ca. 50 nm), whereas, propyl-, butyl-, pentyl-and hexyl-substituted derivatives (BA3, BA4, BA5 and BA6) formed H-aggregates ...
[Watanabe, Yoshihisa; Suzuki, Naoki; Tsuji, Yasushi; Shim, Sang Chul; Mitsudo, Take-aki Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1982 , vol. 55, # 4 p. 1116 - 1120]