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The ternary polyionic inorganic compound Cs2Mo6Br14 and 18-crown-6 ethers bearing two o-terphenyl units have been combined to design phosphorescent columnar liquid crystalline hybrid materials. The obtained host-guest complexes are very stable even at high temperatures. Depending on their surrounding atmosphere, these hybrids switch reversibly from a high-to-low luminescence state and show a very stable emission intensity up to 140 °C.

All chemicals were, unless stated otherwise, provided by the supplier and used without further purification. Dry solvents were dried by conventional laboratory methods. The eluents for chromatography petroleum ether (low-boiling) and ethyl acetate were distilled prior to use.For thinlayer chromatography silica gel 60 F254 glass plates with a layer thickness of 0.25 mm on aluminium (pore size 60 Å) from the company Merck were used. Column chromatography was performed using silica gel with a particle diameter of 40 -60 µm from the company Fluka.1 H NMR spectra were measured using the Bruker Avance 300 and Bruker Avance 500 spectrometers at 300 MHz and 500 MHz, respectively and 13 C-NMR spectra at 75 MHz and 126 MHz, respectively. Deuterated chloroform (CDCl3) and deuterated dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO-d6) were used as solvents. The chemical shift δ in ppm (parts per million) refers to the standard tetramethylsilane. The numbering of atoms can be different from the IUPAC nomenclature in order to ensure better comparison of various compounds. In order to assign the signals of the 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra, COSY, HSQC and HMBC measurements were carried out.

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2014) Ionic liquid crystals derived from guanidinium salts: induction of columnar mesophases by bending of the cationic core, Liquid Crystals, 41:7, 976-985, Meta-alkyloxyguanidinium salt-based ionic liquid crystals 3-5, 7 and 9 were synthesised and investigated with respect to the influence of meta-substitution of the cation on the mesomorphic properties. As expected, bending of the mesogenic cation in ion pairs with simple counterions (3-5) decreased melting points irrespective of the anion, but clearing points were influenced by the anion radii. SmA mesophases were formed in all cases. The mesophase formation in guanidinium sulphonates 7 and 9, however, depended not only on meta-substitution but also on the anion, the respective difference between alkyl chain lengths in cation and anion and the number of alkyloxy substituents on the sulphonate, for which a change of mesophase type from smectic to columnar phases was observed. For two derivatives, 7e and 9b, room temperature SmA and Col h mesophases could be obtained that were stable for a temperature range of 91 K and 55 K, respectively. A packing model for both smectic and columnar phases based on powder XRD data was proposed.

Sterically congested o-terphenyl crown ethers with alkoxy substituents at the 2,3,4-position or 3,4,5-position were synthesized from the corresponding tetrabromodibenzo[15]crown-5 and the corresponding boronic acids or borolanes via Suzuki cross-coupling and subsequently cyclized to the corresponding triphenylenes utilizing the Scholl reaction. Both series of compounds were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, polarizing optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction (SAXS, WAXS) regarding their mesomorphic properties. While all but one of the 3,4,5-substituted derivatives displayed liquid crystalline behavior (Col(h) and Col(r)), only the 2,3,4-substituted triphenylene with the shortest alkoxy chains was liquid crystalline (Col(r)).

Sulfur-containing side chains in the periphery ofo-terphenyl or triphenylene units of crown ethers induce room-temperature columnar mesophases.

A series of phenylguanidinium salts 3 . X, which are linked via an alkoxy spacer either to a 4-decyloxy-or 4-cyanosubstituted biphenyl mesogen, was prepared and the mesomorphism studied. A decyloxybiphenyl core and a spacer of at least C6 chain length were required for mesophase formation. Replacement of the chloride counterion by other anions like bromide or tetrafluoroborate improved the thermal stability of the mesophase. A comparison of substitution pattern (meta v. para) on the phenyl ring revealed decreased melting and clearing points for the bent cationic head group. All guanidinium ionic liquid crystals 3 displayed only smectic A (SmA) phases. A packing model is assumed where the molecules in a bilayer stack over each other in opposite direction with interdigitated terminal decyloxy groups and spacers.bromides 9 giving the tethered compounds p-10a,b and m-10b-e in 78-88 % yield. N-Boc-deprotection to derivatives p-11a,b and m-11b-e was achieved very cleanly with methane sulfonic acid in CHCl 3 . Derivative m-11a was obtained in 94 % yield by acidic hydrolysis [62] of acetamide m-7a. The aniline derivatives 11 were finally treated with chloro-N,N,N 0 ,N 0tetramethylformamidinium chloride [63] and either NEt 3 or NaHCO 3 . Workup strictly required an inert gas atmosphere to provide the neat target guanidinium salts 3 . Cl in 70-98 % yield. To further study the anion effect, decyloxybiphenyl guanidinium chloride m-3a . Cl was submitted to salt metathesis with NaBr, KI, NaOTf, NaBF 4 , KPF 6 , KOAc, and KSCN yielding the corresponding guanidinium ILCs m-3a . X (Scheme 2). Anion Effect in Guanidinium ILCsComparison of the 1 H NMR spectra of phenylguanidinium salts m-3a . X revealed a significant downfield shift of the N-H signal from ,7.5 to 12.0 ppm in the following order: PF 6 , BF 4 , OTf , I , SCN , Br ECl (Fig. 1).This correlation between the anion and the N-H proton shift indicates the presence of contact between the ion pairs that also led to small chemical shifts of the aromatic protons of the phenylguanidinium moiety (Fig. 1, grey). To estimate the effect of concentration on the N-H signal, 1 H NMR measurements of m-3b . Cl with concentrations varying from 0.83 to 2.50 mg mL À1 were carried out. The N-H signal shift of 0.1 ppm turned out to be negligible with respect to the strong dependence of the NH signal on the anion (see Supplementary Material for details). This effect rather might be due to either the interaction of the anion with the anisotropic cone of the aryl ring than due to the conjugation between the guanidinium cation and the aryl ring. Previous DFT calculations of several guanidinium salts revealed no or only very little conjugation, i.e. the guanidinium moiety behaves like an isolated cation. [39] In agreement with these studies, the N-H signal shifted upfield with increasing anion radii [64,65] with an almost linear correlation (Fig. 2).