1,4,8,11,15,18,22,25-Octa-alkyl phthalocyanines: new discotic liquid crystal materials

1 January 1987

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 14,p. 1086-1088
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39870001086

Abstract

Metal-free and copper(II) 1,4,8,11,15,18,22,25-octa-alkyl phthalocyanines have been prepared with alkyl chain lengths between C₄ and C₁₀; all except those with C₄ and C₅ chains show thermotropic liquid crystalline behaviour with one or more mesophases.

Keywords

ALKYL PHTHALOCYANINES
SHOW THERMOTROPIC
DISCOTIC LIQUID
ALKYL CHAIN
CRYSTALLINE BEHAVIOUR
C5 CHAINS

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