Columnar Liquid Crystallinity and Mechanochromism in Cationic Platinum(II) Complexes

• Main Authors: Krikorian, Markrete (Contributor), Liu, Shuang (Contributor), Swager, Timothy M (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society (ACS), 2018-04-13T17:17:45Z.
• Subjects: Article
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Cationic square planar Pt(II) complexes are reported with high degrees of intermolecular association. These complexes display thermotropic columnar liquid crystalline behavior in spite of having only a single side chain. Crystals undergo mechanochromic transformations that can be reversed with solvent.
National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Award DMR-1005810)
American Society for Engineering Education (Award 2291100)