Discotic liquid crystals of transition-metal complexes. Part 18.—Discotic liquid crystalline behaviour in phthalocyanine compounds substituted by steric hindrance groups at the core

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Abstract
Phthalocyanine compounds substituted with steric hindrance groups have been synthesized: octakis(2-ethyl-hexyl)phthalocyanine (1b) and bis[octakis(4-octadecyloxyphenyl)phthalocyaninato]lutetium(III) complex (2d). These compounds exhibit a wide temperature range of discotic liquid-crystalline properties. Each of these compounds shows a discotic tetragonal disordered columnar mesophase (Dtet.d) or a discotic plain rectangular disordered columnar mesophase [Drd(p2m)] with a lattice very close to tetragonal. This Drd(p2m) phase is a novel discotic mesophase that has not been reported to date. It was found that the introduction of the steric hindrance groups, 2-ethylhexyl (b) and 4-octadecyloxyphenyl (d), tend to induce the appearance of the Dtet.d phase.

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