“…06.030 tin(IV). In search of organic ligands/complexes having mesogenic behaviour, we have recently synthesized a number of 4-[((E)-1-{2-hydroxy-5-[(E)-2-(2-carboxyphenyl)-1-diazenyl]phenyl}methylidene)amino]aryl ligands and efforts have also been made to characterize these ligands by single crystal X-ray crystallographic techniques, for example, L 1 HH 0 [this work], L 2 HH 0 [7] and L 3 HH 0 [1]. However, this family of ligands and its organotin(IV) derivatives await characterization as mesogens and the determination of other essential features such as thermotropic, lyotropic and macroscopic (e.g., optical) properties.…”