Journal of organometallic chemistry

Synthesis and characterisation of rod-like metallomesogens of Mn (I) based on Schiff base ligands

XH Liu, MN Abser, DW Bruce

Index: Liu, Xiao-Hua; Nurul Abser; Bruce, Duncan W. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1998 , vol. 551, # 1-2 p. 271 - 280

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Abstract

Complexation of liquid-crystalline imines to Mn (I) carbonyls led to liquid-crystalline complexes when the ligated imine was sufficiently anisotropic. Thus, all two-ring and some three-ring imine ligands were not mesomorphic when complexed, while some three-ring and all four-ring imines led to mesomorphic complexes. As expected, complexation disturbed the anisotropy of the ligands and led to a lowering of clearing points and a suppression of ...