Issue 45, 2006
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Chemical Communications

Spiropyran-based liquid crystals: the formation of columnar phases via acid-induced spiro–merocyanine isomerisation†

Boon-Hooi Tan,a   Masafumi Yoshio,a   Takahiro Ichikawa,a   Tomohiro Mukai,b   Hiroyuki Ohnob  and  Takashi Kato*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
E-mail: kato@chiral.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Fax: (+81)-3-5841-8661

b Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

Hexagonal columnar liquid-crystalline phases are induced for a new fan-shaped spiropyran compound as the result of an acidichromism effect of spiro–merocyanine isomerisation through protonation upon incorporation of 4-methylbenzenesulfonic acid.

Graphical abstract: Spiropyran-based liquid crystals: the formation of columnar phases via acid-induced spiro–merocyanine isomerisation

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B610903A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Jul 2006
Accepted
07 Sep 2006
First published
04 Oct 2006

Chem. Commun., 2006, 4703-4705

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B. Tan, M. Yoshio, T. Ichikawa, T. Mukai, H. Ohno and T. Kato, Chem. Commun., 2006, 4703 DOI: 10.1039/B610903A

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