Ferrocene- and fullerene[60]-containing liquid-crystalline materials
Author(s)
Chuard, Thierry
Date issued
1998
In
Chimia
Vol
10
No
52
From page
547
To page
550
Subjects
review liq crystal ferrocene fullerene
Abstract
A review with 22 refs. showing the versatility of ferrocene and fullerene for the design of thermotropic liq.-cryst. materials: (i) the electrochem. properties of the ferrocene-ferrocenium system were exploited to design redox-active metallomesogens; (ii) ferrocene-contg. side-chain liq.-cryst. polysiloxane and polymethacrylates were synthesized by grafting a mesomorphic vinyl-ferrocene monomer onto com. available polysiloxane and by free-radical polymn. of mesomorphic methacrylate-ferrocene monomers, resp.; (iii) a 1st-generation ferrocene-contg. liq.-cryst. dendrimer was synthesized; and (iv) liq.-cryst. fullerene (10) and mixed fullerene-ferrocene (11) derivs. were obtained by functionalizing the C60 core with a twin cholesterol moiety. [on SciFinder(R)]
Publication type
journal article