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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
Published on: March 24, 2018
Crystal engineering of a liquid crystalline piperazinedione
Robin A Kloster1, Michael D Carducci, Eugene A Mash
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041, USA.
Organic Letters
|September 26, 2003
Abstract:
[structure: see text] A molecule designed to self-assemble via hydrogen bonding, arene-arene, and van der Waals interactions and expected to possess thermotropic liquid crystalline properties has been synthesized and characterized. Results support the validity of an assembly paradigm based on incorporation of chemically orthogonal and spatially independent recognition elements in the molecular building blocks.

