Room-temperature organometallic chiral liquid crystals: azoxymercury complexes
Abstract
The new mercury complexes [HgL nCl][HL = 4-(n-CnH2n+ 1)-4′-{S-(+)-2-octyloxy} azobenzene, n= 6,10] are liquid crystals which exhibit a chiral smectic C* mesophase at room temperature and clear at about 60 °C.