Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.260, 301-306, 1995
Liquid-Crystalline Behavior in Octahedral Metal-Complexes
Octahedral liquid crystals based upon diketonate complexes of Fe+3 Mn+3, and Cr+3 are reported. These materials display columnar phases with greater than or equal to 12 sidechains and an ordered smectic phase with 6 sidechains.