Abstract

We synthesized new chiral all-organic liquid crystalline (LC) compounds with nitroxide (NO) and hydroxy (OH) groups, which form intermolecular hydrogen bonds between the NO and OH groups. The LC compounds show hexagonal columnar phases at room temperature, which solidify as LC glasses at low temperature. The experimental magnetic susceptibility of each of the compounds in the LC and isotropic phases is larger than that theoretically estimated on the simple assumption about the amount of the spins, whereas it accords with the theoretical one in the LC glass state. It is called magneto-LC effects. The difference between experimental and theoretical magnetic susceptibilities gradually increases as temperature increases through the LC glass state-to-LC phase transition. It suggests that molecular mobility is one of the origins of the magneto-LC effects.

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