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High-Contrast and Fast Photorheological Switching of a Twist-Bend Nematic Liquid Crystal
Published on: October 31, 2019
Selected solid-state behaviour of three di-tert-butyl-substituted N-salicylideneaniline derivatives:
Helen E Mason1, Judith A K Howard1, Hazel A Sparkes2
1Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
Abstract:
The synthesis, single-crystal structures and chromic behaviour of three related Schiff bases, namely, (E)-2,4-di-tert-butyl-6-{[(4-fluorophenyl)imino]methyl}phenol, C21H26FNO, 1, (E)-2,4-di-tert-butyl-6-{[(4-chlorophenyl)imino]methyl}phenol, C21H26ClNO, 2, and (E)-6-{[(4-bromophenyl)imino]methyl}-2,4-di-tert-butylphenol, C21H26BrNO, 3, are reported. Two polymorphs of 1 were obtained, which were found to have different photochromic properties. Schiff bases 2 and 3 were found to be isostructural and underwent a phase transition upon cooling which was attributed to the dynamic disorder in one of the tert-butyl groups resolving at low temperature. All of the structures were found to exist in the enol rather than the keto form based on the C-O(H) and imine C=N bond lengths, and contained an intramolecular O-H...N hydrogen bond alongside weaker intermolecular C-H...O contacts.
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