Correlation between magnetic properties and molecular structure of some metallo-mesogens

The behaviour of a large number of paramagnetic metallo-mesogenic molecules with Cu and VO in different mesophases in a magnetic field was investigated by EPR techniques and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The investigation of the angular dependence of the EPR spectra enabled conclusions to be reached concerning the molecular orientation in the external magnetic field. Temperature dependence magnetic susceptibility measurements were carried out in order to obtain information about the overall susceptibility anisotropy. The good agreement between experimental results and calculated data based on the known increment scheme is obvious. It is shown that the direction of orientation of the molecules in a magnetic field is predetermined by the sum of the anisotropy of the phenyl ring and the chelate core in the molecular structure

Towards magnetic liquid crystals

In this paper, we present the results of studies on the synthesis and properties of a series of liquid–crystalline lanthanide complexes of imine ligands. We describe the liquid–crystalline behaviour as a function of the metal, ligand and anion employed and we report on the nature of the coordination between different ligand types and the metal centre