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Hydrogen bonding and the design of twist-bend nematogens
Crawford, Catriona A.,Gorecka, Ewa,Imrie, Corrie T.,Pociecha, Damian,Storey, John M. D.,Walker, Rebecca
, (2020/02/13)
The phase properties of equimolar mixtures consisting of a hydrogen bond donor, a 4-alkoxybenzoic acid (nOBA), and one of two different stilbazole-based hydrogen bond acceptors, either 4-[(E)-2-(4-{[6-(4′-methoxy[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)hexyl]oxy}phenyl)-ethenyl]-pyridine (1OB6OS) or 4-[(E)-4′-(6-{4-[(E)-2-(pyridin-4-yl)ethenyl]phenoxy}hexyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-4-carbonitrile (CB6OS) are reported. Neither hydrogen bond acceptor exhibits liquid crystal behaviour whereas the nOBA compounds show smectic and/or nematic behaviour depending on the length of the alkyloxy chain. For the complexes of an nOBA with n = 1–5, both conventional nematic and twist-bend nematic phases were observed, while for n ≥ 6 smectic phases emerged and the twist-bend nematic phase was extinguished. The CB6OS-nOBA mixtures may exhibit the heliconical smectic CTB phase. The local molecular arrangement in the two sets of mixtures are similar and changes on increasing n but this is not reflected in the nematic-isotropic transition temperatures. Birefringence studies of the mixtures are reported. In general the behaviour of the hydrogen-bonded mixtures is similar to that of their covalently bonded counterparts.
Spontaneous chirality through mixing achiral components: A twist-bend nematic phase driven by hydrogen-bonding between unlike components
Walker,Pociecha,Abberley,Martinez-Felipe,Paterson,Forsyth,Lawrence,Henderson,Storey,Gorecka,Imrie
supporting information, p. 3383 - 3386 (2018/04/05)
The spontaneous formation of a chiral phase via molecular recognition in a system consisting of achiral components is reported. Specifically, the liquid crystalline behaviour of two molecular complexes assembled by hydrogen bonding between a stilbazole-ba
2,4-dinitrophenyl ether-containing chemodosimeters for the selective and sensitive in vitro and in vivo detection of hydrogen sulfide
El Sayed, Sameh,De La Torre, Cristina,Santos-Figueroa, Luis E.,Martinez-Manez, Ramon,Sancenon, Felix,Orzaez, Mar,Costero, Ana M.,Parra, Margarita,Gil, Salvador
, p. 244 - 254 (2015/10/20)
Four probes (i.e. D1-D4) for the selective and sensitive fluorogenic detection of HS- have been prepared and characterised. HEPES (10 mM, pH 7.4)-DMSO 99:1 v/v solutions of D1-D4 are essentially non-fluorescent. Changes in the emission using D1-D4 in the presence of anions (F-, Cl-, Br-, I-,N-3, CN-, SCN-, AcO-,CO2-3 ,PO2-4,SO2-4, HS- and OH-), biothiols (GSH, Cys, Hcy, Me-Cys and lipoic acid), reducing agents (SO2-3 and S2O2-3) and oxidants (H2O2) demonstrated that only HS- is able to induce the appearance of intense emission bands in the 400-520 nm range in the four probes. The selectivity observed was ascribed to a unique hydrogen sulfide-induced hydrolysis of the 2,4-dinitrophenyl ether moiety that yielded the corresponding free highly fluorescent alcohols. The potential detection of intracellular HS- was also studied.