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Oligopyridine Liquid Crystals—Novel Building Blocks for Supermolecular Architectures Based on Metal Coordination and Hydrogen Bonding
Author(s) -
Tschierske Carsten
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3773(20000717)39:14<2454::aid-anie2454>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - hydrogen bond , tetrahedron , materials science , metal , liquid crystalline , crystallography , liquid crystal , nanotechnology , molecule , chemistry , metallurgy , organic chemistry , optoelectronics
Functionalized oligopyridine derivatives can organize into disclike, helical, or tetrahedral structures by metal complexation or through hydrogen bonding. The entities formed can self‐organize with formation of a variety of novel and quite unusual liquid crystalline phases with various cylinder and cylinder‐layer morphologies. In some cases, for example, with 1 , the liquid crystalline properties are lost after coordination of the metal ion, while in others coordination induces the properties.