Liquid-crystalline Janus-type fullerodendrimers displaying tunable smectic-columnar mesomorphism

J Lenoble, S Campidelli, N Maringa…

Index: Lenoble, Julie; Maringa, Natacha; Campidelli, Stephane; Donnio, Bertrand; Guillon, Daniel; Deschenaux, Robert Organic Letters, 2006 , vol. 8, # 9 p. 1851 - 1854

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Abstract

Janus-type liquid-crystalline fullerodendrimers were synthesized via the 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddtition of two mesomorphic dendrons and C60. By assembling poly (aryl ester) dendrons functionalized with cyanobiphenyl groups, displaying lamellar mesomorphism, with poly (benzyl ether) dendrons carrying alkyl chains, which display columnar mesomorphism, we could tailor by design the liquid-crystalline properties of the title ...