Abstract
Photosensitive liquid crystalline materials whose properties could be modified with UV–visible light irradiation are of special interest for photosensitive and photoswitching materials. Herein we represent the first examples of light-responsive halogen bonded supramolecular polycatenars. Photoswitchable liquid-crystalline aggregates were designed and prepared via halogen bond formation between a non-mesogenic taper shaped tetrafluoroiodobenzene based halogen bond-donor and non-mesogenic or mesogenic azopyridine derivatives as halogen bond-acceptors. The liquid crystalline behaviour of the prepared materials was characterized by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarized optical microscope (POM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Upon irradiation with UV light, the complexes undergo fast and reversible photoinduced phase transition. Interestingly, some of these halogen-bonded polycatenars exhibit enantiotropic liquid crystalline phases over wide temperature ranges which are the widest among all previously reported photoresponsive perfluoroaryliodide based supramolecular halogen bonded liquid crystals.
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