Liquid crystal properties of metal–salicylaldimine complexes.: Chemical modifications towards lower symmetry

✍ Scribed by Naomi Hoshino

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 413 KB
• Volume: 174
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-8545
• DOI: 10.1016/s0010-8545(98)00129-5

✦ Synopsis

A body of work involving liquid crystalline phases in the family of transition metal complexes of salicylaldimines has been reviewed. An account is given as to how the mesophases can be derived from archetypical coordination compounds in the liquid state by an approach of lowering symmetry. Attention is confined to reported examples of well-established metalsalicylaldimine mesogens. Firstly, it is shown that the nematic behavior can be related to the molecular shape anisotropy as a primary factor, which works advantageously to generate the orientational order. A group of bis[4-(4-alkoxy)benzoyloxy-N-alkylsalicylaldiminato]metal