Plank-Shaped Column-Forming Mesogens with Substituents on One Side Only
Plank-Shaped Column-Forming Mesogens with Substituents on One Side Only
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DOI:
10.1002/chem.201500048
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发表时间:
2015-05-11
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Bock, Harald
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作者:
Girotto, Edivandro;Ferreira, Marli;Bock, Harald
Prolonged glyoxylation of pyrenyl-1-glyoxylic acid ethyl ester leads to a mixture of isomers with polar pyrenylene-1,8-diglyoxylic acid as the main product, whereas the centrosymmetric 1,6-isomer is obtained in good yield from the corresponding dibromopyrene. Perkin condensations followed by Pd-catalyzed cyclizations lead to isomeric dinaphthopyrene-tetracarboxdiimides that self-assemble into columnar liquid crystals of hexagonal and rectangular symmetry, of which the rectangular mesophases have unusually elongated unit cells. The cisoid diimides with both alkylimide substituents on the same side of the oblong arene system show a much greater tendency to self-assemble into fluid stacks of disks than their centrosymmetric isomers. With racemically branched alkyl substituents, uniform vertical surface alignment of the columns in the high-temperature hexagonal mesophase is resilient to cycling through the lower-temperature rectangular and crystalline phases.