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Hydrogen-bond mediated columnar liquid crystalline assemblies of C3-symmetric heptazine derivatives at ambient temperature†
Indu Bala,Santosh Prasad Gupta,Sunil Kumar,Harpreet Singh,Joydip De,Neha Sharma,Kamalakannan Kailasam,Santanu Kumar Pal
Soft Matter Pub Date : 07/11/2018 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C8SM00834E
Abstract

A new class of hydrogen (H) bonded fluorescent liquid crystals (FLCs) based on a newly discovered s-heptazine fluorophore discotic component have been synthesized. The tendency of the s-heptazine core to form H-bonded LCs has been explored for the first time. Interestingly, the pure heptazine derivatives (non-mesomorphic) on complexation with tri-alkoxy benzoic acids exhibit enantiotropic columnar mesomorphism over a wide range of temperatures including room temperature. This indicates the strength of the resulting H-bonded complexes. The H-bonded supramolecular complexes were studied through FT-IR, temperature dependent FT-IR and NMR studies and H–D exchange studies, and their thermal behaviour was deduced through polarized optical microscopy (POM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies. Because of the inherently fluorescent pure heptazine derivative, the resulting complexes exhibit fluorescent behaviour in the solution state as well as in the solid state.

Graphical abstract: Hydrogen-bond mediated columnar liquid crystalline assemblies of C3-symmetric heptazine derivatives at ambient temperature
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