Liquid crystals of some disk-like copper beta-diketonates

Abstract

Three homologous copper beta-diketonates have been prepared and their discogenic properties studied. The mesophases obtained from these are totally miscible with each other and are also with the mesophase exhibited by the known bis[1.3-di(p-n-octyloxy-phenyl) propane-1,3-dionato] copper (II). However, the ligands from which these complexes are prepared are themselves not mesogenic.