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Giudice N, L'Her M, Scrafton E, Atoini Y, Gentile G, Heinrich B, Berthiot R, Aliprandi A, Douce L. Cover Feature: Luminescent Ionic Liquid Crystals Based on Naphthalene‐Imidazolium Unit (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 14/2021). European J Org Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202100374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Giudice N, L'Her M, Scrafton E, Atoini Y, Gentile G, Heinrich B, Berthiot R, Aliprandi A, Douce L. Luminescent Ionic Liquid Crystals Based on Naphthalene‐Imidazolium Unit. European J Org Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202100047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Zhu X, Hessin C, Salamé A, Sosa-Vargas L, Kreher D, Adachi C, Proust A, Mialane P, Marrot J, Bouchet A, Sliwa M, Méry S, Heinrich B, Mathevet F, Izzet G. Photoactive Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials with Nanosegregated Donor-Acceptor Arrays. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:8419-8424. [PMID: 33448550 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202014319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Revised: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The synthesis of the first mesogenic donor-acceptor polyoxometalate (POM)-based hybrid is herein described. The structural and electronic properties of the hybrid compound were evaluated through combination of small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering, optical microscopy, electrochemistry and photoluminescence. In the solid state, the compound behaves as a birefringent solid, displaying a lamellar organization in which double-layers of POMs and bis(thiophene)thienothiophene organic donors alternate regularly. Noticeably, the sub-unit organizations in the composite are similar to that observed for the individual POM and organic donor precursors. Photophysical studies show that in the hybrid, the fluorescence of the organic donor unit is considerably quenched both in solution and in the solid state, which is attributed to occurrence of intramolecular charge-separated state.
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Suleymanova AF, Yakovleva YA, Eltsov OS, Lantushenko AO, Evstigneev MP, Donnio B, Heinrich B, Kozhevnikov VN. Comparative analysis of self-aggregation of liquid crystalline Pt(II) complexes in solution and in neat films. J Organomet Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2021.121750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Zhu X, Hessin C, Salamé A, Sosa‐Vargas L, Kreher D, Adachi C, Proust A, Mialane P, Marrot J, Bouchet A, Sliwa M, Méry S, Heinrich B, Mathevet F, Izzet G. Photoactive Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials with Nanosegregated Donor–Acceptor Arrays. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202014319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Choi KR, Kim DH, Lee YU, Placide V, Huynh S, Yao D, Canard G, Zaborova E, Mathevet F, Mager L, Heinrich B, Ribierre JC, Wu JW, Fages F, D'Aléo A. Effect of the electron donating group on the excited-state electronic nature and epsilon-near-zero properties of curcuminoid-borondifluoride dyes. RSC Adv 2021; 11:38247-38257. [PMID: 35498060 PMCID: PMC9043959 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra08025c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) properties have been reported in organic molecular films. In particular, cyanine and squaraine films have been shown to exhibit ENZ properties in the visible spectral region with a strong 3rd order nonlinear optical response near the ENZ spectral region. Noting both cyanine and squaraine belong to the polymethine family, a series of six curcuminoid borondifluoride (Curc) derivatives were developed to examine whether such a polymethine character is positively correlated with the ENZ property of the organic films. Those Curc derivatives possess a Donor–Acceptor–Donor (D–A–D) architecture with acceptor, AcacBF2, located at the molecular center. The backbone of Curc is designed such that the donor strength can be tuned to transit between charge transfer (CT) and polymethine character. This balance between CT and polymethine character of the Curc series is examined based on the Lippert–Mataga plot. As donor strength in the D–A–D structure increases, CT character is less marked resulting in a more dominant polymethine character. The structural and optical properties of the Curc films with a thickness in the order of 30 nm were examined to correlate the polymethine character with the ENZ response. The results obtained in isotropic Curc thin films demonstrate that an increase of polymethine character associated with a stronger donor strength leads to an appearance/enhancement of the ENZ property in the visible spectrum range from 500 to 670 nm. Overall, this study provides useful guidelines to engineer new organic materials showing ENZ properties in a desired spectral range. Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) properties have been reported in organic molecular films.![]()
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Senthil Kumar K, Del Giudice N, Heinrich B, Douce L, Ruben M. Bistable spin-crossover in a new series of [Fe(BPP-R) 2] 2+ (BPP = 2,6-bis(pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine; R = CN) complexes. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:14258-14267. [PMID: 33026376 DOI: 10.1039/d0dt02214d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Spin-crossover (SCO) active transition metal complexes are a class of switchable molecular materials. Such complexes undergo hysteretic high-spin (HS) to low-spin (LS) transition, and vice versa, rendering them suitable for the development of molecule-based switching and memory elements. Therefore, the search for SCO complexes undergoing abrupt and hysteretic SCO, that is, bistable SCO, is actively carried out by the molecular magnetism community. In this study, we report the bistable SCO characteristics associated with a new series of iron(ii) complexes-[Fe(BPP-CN)2](X)2, X = BF4 (1a-d) or ClO4 (2)-belonging to the [Fe(BPP-R)2]2+ (BPP = 2,6-bis(pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine) family of complexes. Among the complexes, the lattice solvent-free complex 2 showed a stable and complete SCO (T1/2 = 241 K) with a thermal hysteresis width (ΔT) of 28 K-the widest ΔT reported so far for a [Fe(BPP-R)2](X)2 family of complexes, showing abrupt SCO. The reproducible and bistable SCO shown by the relatively simple [Fe(BPP-CN)2](X)2 series of molecular complexes is encouraging to pursue [Fe(BPP-R)2]2+ systems for the realization of technologically relevant SCO complexes.
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Schmidt A, Heinrich B, Kirscher G, Chaumont A, Henry M, Kyritsakas N, Haketa Y, Maeda H, Mobian P. Dipyrrolyldiketonato Titanium(IV) Complexes from Monomeric to Multinuclear Architectures: Synthesis, Stability, and Liquid-Crystal Properties. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:12802-12816. [PMID: 32845621 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dipyrrolyldiketone ligands (dpkH) are used with Ti(OiPr)4 to afford monomeric titanium(IV) complexes displaying the general formula C2-[Ti(dpk)2(OiPr)2]. The dpkH ligands employed consist of two dipyrrolyldiketone compounds (2H and 3H) and three diphenyl-substituted analogues (4H-6H). The behavior of these octahedral [Ti(dpk)2(OiPr)2] species in solution was investigated by 1H NMR at variable temperatures. Dynamic phenomena were evidenced, and the activation parameters associated with these processes (ΔH⧧, ΔS⧧, and ΔG⧧) were retrieved. [Ti(dpk)2(OiPr)2] complexes are precursors for the formation of high-nuclearity aggregates whose structures depend on the substituents on the diketone backbone. The crystal structures of monomeric ([Ti(1)2(OiPr)2]; 1 is the 1,3-diphenyl-1,3-propanedionato ligand) and [Ti(2)2(OEt)2]), dimeric ([Ti2(1)4(μ2-O)2]), and tetrameric ([Ti4(4)8(μ2-O)4]) species have been established, and the origin of this structural diversity is discussed. The solid-state optical properties of several complexes were determined and interpreted with the help of DFT calculations. Finally, the dinuclear complex [Ti(6)2(μ2-O)2] was synthesized, where ligand 6 incorporates six long alkyl chains (C16H33). This complex shows rich mesomorphic properties, with an original room-temperature plastic crystal phase followed by a hexagonal columnar liquid-crystalline phase.
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Senthil Kumar K, Šalitroš I, Heinrich B, Moldovan S, Mauro M, Ruben M. Spin-crossover in iron(II)-phenylene ethynylene-2,6-di(pyrazol-1-yl) pyridine hybrids: toward switchable molecular wire-like architectures. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2020; 32:204002. [PMID: 31945748 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab6cc2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Luminescent oligo(p-phenylene ethynylene) (OPE) and spin-crossover (SCO) active Fe(II)-2,6-di(pyrazol-1-yl) pyridine (BPP) systems are prominent examples proposed to develop functional materials such as molecular wires/memories. A marriage between OPE and Fe(II)-BPP systems is a strategy to obtain supramolecular luminescent ligands capable of metal coordination useful to produce novel spin-switchable hybrids with synergistic coupling between spin-state of Fe(II) and a physical property associated with the OPE skeleton, for example, electronic conductivity or luminescence. To begin in this direction, two novel ditopic ligands, namely L1 and L2, featuring OPE-type backbone end-capped with metal coordinating BPP were designed and synthetized. The ligand L2 tailored with 2-ethylhexyloxy chains at the 2 and 5 positions of the OPE skeleton shows modulated optical properties and improved solubility in common organic solvents relative to the parent ligand L1. Solution phase complexation of L1 and L2 with Fe(BF4)2·6H2O resulted in the formation of insoluble materials of the composition [Fe(L1)] n (BF4)2n and [Fe(L2)] n (BF4)2n as inferred from elemental analyses. Complex [Fe(L1)] n (BF4)2n underwent thermal SCO centred at T 1/2 = 275 K as well as photoinduced low-spin to high-spin transition with the existence of the metastable high-spin state up to 52 K. On the other hand, complex [Fe(L2)] n (BF4)2n , tethered with 2-ethylhexyloxy groups, showed gradual and half-complete SCO with 50% of the Fe(II)-centres permanently blocked in the high-spin state due to intermolecular steric interactions. The small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) pattern of the as-prepared solid complex [Fe(L1)] n (BF4)2n revealed the presence of nm-sized crystallites implying a possible methodology towards the template-free synthesis of functional-SCO nanostructures.
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Andelescu A, Heinrich B, Spirache MA, Voirin E, La Deda M, Di Maio G, Szerb EI, Donnio B, Costisor O. Playing with Pt
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Coordination to Obtain Luminescent Metallomesogens. Chemistry 2020; 26:4850-4860. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202000124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Ma T, Wang HF, Zhao KQ, Wang BQ, Hu P, Monobe H, Heinrich B, Donnio B. Nonlinear Nonacenes with a Dithienothiophene Substructure: Multifunctional Compounds that Act as Columnar Mesogens, Luminophores, π Gelators, and p-Type Semiconductors. Chempluschem 2020; 84:1439-1448. [PMID: 31944039 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201900123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Revised: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Board-like liquid-crystalline semiconductors based on the dithieno[3,2-b;2',3'-d]thiophene (DTT) substructure were synthesized and their thermal, self-assembly, optical, and semiconducting properties investigated. These sanidic compounds, bearing eight peripheral chains, are mesomorphic and spontaneously self-assemble into columnar hexagonal mesophases (Colhex ) over broad temperature ranges, as confirmed by polarized optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and small-angle X-ray scattering. Strong blue photoluminescence with absolute quantum yields up to 33 % were measured. These compounds also form blue-light emitting gels in various organic solvents. The fibrillar-like morphology of these gels, reminiscent of the columnar structure, and stabilized by efficient intermolecular interactions, was characterized by scanning electron microscopy. The charge carrier mobility of these π-extended mesogens was measured by time-of-flight transient photocurrent technique in the Colhex mesophase, and showed good hole-transport performance with charge carrier mobility of 10-3 cm2 V-1 s-1 .
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L’Her M, Atoini Y, Fouchet J, Heinrich B, Del-Giudice N, Scrafton E, Bordes E, Karmazin L, Charbonnière L, De Cola L, Douce L. Correction: Luminescent imidazolium–naphthalene salts in liquid and solid states. NEW J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0nj90011g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Correction for ‘Luminescent imidazolium–naphthalene salts in liquid and solid states’ by Matthieu L’Her et al., New J. Chem., 2019, 43, 12529–12532.
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Senthil Kumar K, Vela S, Heinrich B, Suryadevara N, Karmazin L, Bailly C, Ruben M. Bi-stable spin-crossover in charge-neutral [Fe(R-ptp) 2] (ptp = 2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-6-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)pyridine) complexes. Dalton Trans 2019; 49:1022-1031. [PMID: 31859300 DOI: 10.1039/c9dt04411f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Bi-stable charge-neutral iron(ii) spin-crossover (SCO) complexes are a class of switchable molecular materials proposed for molecule-based switching and memory applications. In this study, we report on the SCO behavior of a series of iron(ii) complexes composed of rationally designed 2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-6-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)pyridine (ptp) ligands. The powder forms of [Fe2+(R-ptp-)2]0 complexes tethered with less-bulky substituents-R = H (1), R = CH2OH (2), and R = COOCH3 (3; previously reported)-at the 4-position of the pyridine ring of the ptp skeleton showed abrupt and hysteretic SCO at or above room temperature (RT), whereas complex 5 featuring a bulky pyrene substituent showed incomplete and gradual SCO behavior. The role of intermolecular interactions, lattice solvent, and electronic nature of the chemical substituents (R) in tuning the SCO of the complexes is elucidated.
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Torres‐Werlé M, Heinrich B, Maisse‐François A, Bellemin‐Laponnaz S. Synthesis of alternating metallocopolymers by chiral recognition. Chirality 2019; 31:903-909. [DOI: 10.1002/chir.23128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Revised: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Alvariño C, Heinrich B, Donnio B, Deschenaux R, Therrien B. Supramolecular Arene-Ruthenium Metallacycle with Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Properties. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:9505-9512. [PMID: 31247839 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Functionalization of 1,4-di(4-pyridinyl)benzene with poly(arylester) dendrimers bearing cyanobiphenyl end-groups gives a bidentate dendromesogenic ligand (L) that exhibits thermotropic liquid-crystalline properties. Combination of the diruthenium complex [Ru2(p-cymene)2(donq)][DDS]2 (M) with L, by coordination-driven self-assembly, affords the discrete and well-defined metallacycle M2L2. Like L, this supramolecular dendritic system displays mesomorphic properties above 50 °C. Both compounds L and M2L2 show smectic phases, characterized by a multilayered organization of the multiple components.
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Zhao KC, Du JQ, Wang HF, Zhao KQ, Hu P, Wang BQ, Monobe H, Heinrich B, Donnio B. Board-like Fused-Thiophene Liquid Crystals and their Benzene Analogs: Facile Synthesis, Self-Assembly, p-Type Semiconductivity, and Photoluminescence. Chem Asian J 2019; 14:462-470. [PMID: 30536874 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201801483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2018] [Revised: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Fused-thiophene discotic liquid crystals were designed and easily synthesized by Suzuki coupling and FeCl3 oxidized tandem cyclodehydrogenation reactions, including homo- and cross-coupling reactions. The resulting hexagonal and rectangular columnar mesomorphic supramolecular structures formed were characterized by polarizing optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and small-angle X-ray scattering. The charge carrier transport properties in the mesophases of two of the synthesized fused-thiophene discogens were measured by transient photocurrent time-of-flight (TOF) technique, revealing fast hole transport values in the range of 10-3 to 10-2 cm2 V-1 s-1 , thus demonstrating potential applications in electronic devices. The luminescent sanidic mesogens, with different extended π-conjugated systems, also emit blue, green, or red light, with absolute photoluminescent quantum yields as high as 18 %.
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L’Her M, Atoini Y, Fouchet J, Heinrich B, Del-Giudice N, Scrafton E, Bordes E, Karmazin L, Charbonière L, De Cola L, Douce L. Luminescent imidazolium–naphthalene salts in liquid and solid states. NEW J CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj02972a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This article describes highly luminescent ionic compounds in liquid and crystalline states, where a naphthalene moiety is conjugated to an imidazolium center decorated with two different lengths of alkyl chains.
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Barloy L, Heinrich B, Douce L, Henry M, Scarpi-Luttenauer M, Kyritsakas N, Mobian P. A robust Ti(iv)-based mesogen constructed around a TiO4N2 core. Dalton Trans 2019; 48:1960-1963. [DOI: 10.1039/c8dt04972f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A Ti(iv)-complex with thermotropic liquid crystal properties is reported.
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Senthil Kumar K, Heinrich B, Vela S, Moreno-Pineda E, Bailly C, Ruben M. Bi-stable spin-crossover characteristics of a highly distorted [Fe(1-BPP-COOC2H5)2](ClO4)2·CH3CN complex. Dalton Trans 2019; 48:3825-3830. [DOI: 10.1039/c8dt04928a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A HS Fe(ii) complex, see figure, with a pronounced angular distortion (ϕ) = 158.83(17)° showed lattice solvent dependent spin-state switching characteristics with a thermal hysteresis width (ΔT) of 101 K.
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Nasifoglu S, Heinrich B, Welzel J. Successful therapy for pyoderma gangrenosum with a Janus kinase 2 inhibitor. Br J Dermatol 2018; 179:504-505. [DOI: 10.1111/bjd.16468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Miguel Coello AB, Bardají M, Coco S, Donnio B, Heinrich B, Espinet P. Triphenylene-Imidazolium Salts and Their NHC Metal Complexes, Materials with Segregated Multicolumnar Mesophases. Inorg Chem 2018; 57:4359-4369. [PMID: 29608287 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Two imidazolium salts containing one or two pentadodecyloxytriphenylene units linked through a hexyloxy chain and Br-, [AuBr mCl4- m]-, or [PtBr mCl4- m]2- ( m = 0-3) as counterion have been prepared. Reaction of the imidazolium bromides with M2O (M = Cu, Ag), or carbene transmetalation from the silver product, leads to N-heterocyclic carbene complexes [MX(NHC)] (M = Cu, X = Br; M = Au, X = Cl, C≡CPh), [Ag(NHC)2][AgBr2], and [PtCl2(NHC)2], with NHC bearing one or two triphenylene fragments. Except for the gold derivatives and one Cu complex, the rest of them behave as liquid crystals organized in columnar mesophases (rectangular c2 mm or p2mg or hexagonal p6mm symmetries) with melting points in the range 30 to 60 °C and clearing points in the range 57-112 °C. The mesophase structures were determined by small-angle X-ray scattering. Structural studies and models point to nanosegregation of triphenylene columns and imidazolium/metal carbene moieties, separated by alkoxy chains, leading to multicolumnar systems. The compounds display emission spectra related to the triphenylene core in solution, in the mesophase, in the isotropic liquid, and in the solid state.
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Pieper P, Russo V, Heinrich B, Donnio B, Deschenaux R. Liquid-Crystalline Tris[60]fullerodendrimers. J Org Chem 2018; 83:3208-3219. [PMID: 29493239 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b00093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Liquid-crystalline tris[60]fullerodendrimers based on first- and second-generation poly(arylester)dendrons carrying cyanobiphenyl mesogens were synthesized for the first time by the olefin cross-metathesis reaction between type I (terminal) and type II (α,β-unsaturated carbonyl) olefinic precursors, using a second-generation Grubbs or Hoveyda-Grubbs catalyst. The modular synthetic approach developed here also allowed the selective preparation of the [60]fullerene-free, mono[60]fullerodendrimer, and bis[60]fullerodendrimer derivatives from the appropriate precursors. As revealed by polarized optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and small-angle X-ray scattering, all of the materials displayed liquid-crystalline properties. In agreement with the nature of the dendritic building blocks, the emergence of lamellar mesophases (smectic C and/or smectic A phases), with the segregation of the various constitutive parts, was systematically observed. The small variation of the mesomorphic temperature range and of the mesophase stability suggested that the mesomorphism is essentially dominated by the dendrimer itself and is regulated by a subtle adaptive mechanism, in which the proportion of monolayering and bilayering arrangements of the multisegregated lamellar mesophases is modified in order to compensate the space requirements of each of the elementary building blocks, namely, the [60]fullerene units, the cyanobiphenyl mesogens, and the dendritic matrix.
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Kumar KS, Studniarek M, Heinrich B, Arabski J, Schmerber G, Bowen M, Boukari S, Beaurepaire E, Dreiser J, Ruben M. Engineering On-Surface Spin Crossover: Spin-State Switching in a Self-Assembled Film of Vacuum-Sublimable Functional Molecule. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2018; 30:1705416. [PMID: 29356142 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201705416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Revised: 11/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The realization of spin-crossover (SCO)-based applications requires study of the spin-state switching characteristics of SCO complex molecules within nanostructured environments, especially on surfaces. Except for a very few cases, the SCO of a surface-bound thin molecular film is either quenched or heavily altered due to: (i) molecule-surface interactions and (ii) differing intermolecular interactions in films relative to the bulk. By fabricating SCO complexes on a weakly interacting surface, the interfacial quenching problem is tackled. However, engineering intermolecular interactions in thin SCO active films is rather difficult. Here, a molecular self-assembly strategy is proposed to fabricate thin spin-switchable surface-bound films with programmable intermolecular interactions. Molecular engineering of the parent complex system [Fe(H2 B(pz)2 )2 (bpy)] (pz = pyrazole, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) with a dodecyl (C12 ) alkyl chain yields a classical amphiphile-like functional and vacuum-sublimable charge-neutral FeII complex, [Fe(H2 B(pz)2 )2 (C12 -bpy)] (C12 -bpy = dodecyl[2,2'-bipyridine]-5-carboxylate). Both the bulk powder and 10 nm thin films sublimed onto either quartz glass or SiOx surfaces of the complex show comparable spin-state switching characteristics mediated by similar lamellar bilayer like self-assembly/molecular interactions. This unprecedented observation augurs well for the development of SCO-based applications, especially in molecular spintronics.
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Fouchet J, Heinrich B, L’Her M, Voirin E, Karmazin L, Bailly C, Welter R, Mirjafari A, Douce L. Heterogeneous microwave-assisted Ullmann type methodology for synthesis of rigid-core ionic liquid crystals. NEW J CHEM 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8nj01609g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present an efficient Ullmann-type synthesis methodology enabling the preparation of imidazolium compounds with an extended aromatic core in three steps.
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Peltier JD, Heinrich B, Donnio B, Jeannin O, Rault-Berthelot J, Poriel C. Modulating the Physical and Electronic Properties over Positional Isomerism: The Dispirofluorene-Dihydroindacenodithiophene (DSF-IDT) Family. Chemistry 2017; 23:17290-17303. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201703320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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