Issue 68, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Photoresponsive liquid crystals based on halogen bonding of azopyridines†

Yinjie Chen,a   Haifeng Yu,*b   Lanying Zhang,b   Huai Yang*ab  and  Yunfeng Lu*c  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, P. R. China

b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
E-mail: yuhaifeng@pku.edu.cn, yanghuai@pku.edu.cn

c Department of chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA

Abstract

A series of photoresponsive halogen-bonded liquid crystals (LCs) were successfully constructed using molecular halogen and azopyridine compounds, which show interesting properties of photoinduced phase transition upon UV irradiation. In addition, bromine-bonded LCs were first obtained with high mesophase stability.

Graphical abstract: Photoresponsive liquid crystals based on halogen bonding of azopyridines

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC02344G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Mar 2014
Accepted
11 May 2014
First published
13 May 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 9647-9649

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Photoresponsive liquid crystals based on halogen bonding of azopyridines

Y. Chen, H. Yu, L. Zhang, H. Yang and Y. Lu, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 9647 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC02344G

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