Volume 48, Issue 35 pp. 6516-6519
Communication

All-Organic Discotic Radical with a Spin-Carrying Rigid-Core Showing Intracolumnar Interactions and Multifunctional Properties

Sonia Castellanos

Sonia Castellanos

Departament de Química Biològica i Modelització Molecular, Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya (CSIC), Jordi Girona, 18-26, 08034 Barcelona (Spain)

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Francisco López-Calahorra Prof.

Francisco López-Calahorra Prof.

Departament de química Orgànica, Institut de Nanociències I Nanotecnologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028 Barcelona (Spain)

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Enric Brillas Prof.

Enric Brillas Prof.

Departament de Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028 Barcelona (Spain)

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Luis Juliá Dr.

Luis Juliá Dr.

Departament de Química Biològica i Modelització Molecular, Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya (CSIC), Jordi Girona, 18-26, 08034 Barcelona (Spain)

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Dolores Velasco Dr.

Dolores Velasco Dr.

Departament de química Orgànica, Institut de Nanociències I Nanotecnologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028 Barcelona (Spain)

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First published: 12 August 2009
Citations: 42

Financial support for this research was obtained from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain) through grant no. CTQ2006-15611-C02-02/BQU. S.C. is gratefully acknowledged to the Generalitat de Catalunya for a predoctoral grant. We also thank the EPR service of the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC) for recording the EPR spectra.

Graphical Abstract

The discotic liquid crystal radical 1, which is very stable in the solid state or solution, has an enantiotropic ordered hexagonal columnar mesophase above room temperature with magnetic interactions among molecular spins. Radical 1 shows electrochemical amphotericity and absorption and light-emission properties that cover the red region of the visible spectrum.

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