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Garland, Andrew D., Bryant, Geoffrey C., Cambrier, Isabelle, Cammidge, Andrew N. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7912-4310 and Cook, Michael J.
(2014)
Liquid crystalline properties of unsymmetrically substituted phthalocyanines: Structural features leading to nematic mesophase materials.
Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 18 (10n11).
pp. 944-949.
ISSN 1088-4246
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Abstract
A novel homologous series of four 1,4,8,11,15,18-hexakis(pentyl)-22-methyl-25-hydroxyalkylphthalocyanine derivatives with the hydroxyalkyl chain varying from hydroxynonyl through to hydroxydodecyl has been synthesized to investigate the role of the hydroxyalkyl chain in promoting thermotropic liquid crystalline behavior. Polarizing optical miscoscopy reveals that the compound with the shortest hydroxyalkyl chain (hydroxynonyl) exhibits a mesophase with a texture characteristic of a columnar mesophase, common among liquid crystalline phthalocyanine derivatives. However, as the chain is lengthened along the series, there appears a second type of mesophase that shows a schlieren texture. Such a texture is characteristic of a nematic phase and rare among liquid crystalline phthalocyanine derivatives. A fifth compound, the novel 1,4,8,11,15,18-hexakis(pentyl)-22-methyl-25- dodecylphthalocyanine, exhibits only columnar mesophase behavior suggesting that the hydroxyl group at the end of the longer chains of the former compounds is important in developing the nematic phase.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | liquid crystalline phthalocyanines,columnar mesophase,nematic discotic mesophase |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry (former - to 2024) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Materials and Catalysis Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Light and Energy Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Synthetic Chemistry (former - to 2017) |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2015 07:32 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2024 16:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/52535 |
| DOI: | 10.1142/S1088424614500722 |
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