Chemistry Letters, Vol.36, No.9, 1108-1109, 2007
Novel photoinduced phase transition observed in three-dimensional liquid-crystalline phase of azobenzene compound
A novel dichiral azobenzene compound which shows two kinds of highly ordered liquid-crystalline phases was prepared. One of the mesophases was found, by miscibility studies, to be a chirality-induced three-dimensional (3D) liquid crystal phase. We, for the first time demonstrate the photoinduced phase transition of the liquid-crystal line 3D structure.