Duncan W. Bruce, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Franck Meyer, Tullio Pilati, Carsten Präsang, Giuseppe Resnati, Giancarlo Terraneo, Stephen G. Wainwright and Adrian C. Whitwood Structure–Function Relationships in Liquid-Crystalline Halogen-Bonded Complexes Chemistry - A European Journal 16
Clear as liquid crystals! New liquid-crystalline materials (see figure) were prepared by self-assembly driven by halogen bonding (XB) between a range of alkoxystilbazoles (XB acceptors) and derivatives of the 4-iodotetrafluorophenyl unit (XB donors). Despite the fact that the starting materials are not mesomorphic, the dimeric, halogen-bonded complexes obtained exhibited nematic and SmA phases, depending on the length of the alkyl chains present on the components.
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