Scheme 1. Luminescent ionic mesogenic molecules with different anions and decorated by two or three alkyl tails.

Spin-crossover (SCO) active transition metal complexes are a class of switchable molecular materials. Such complexes undergo hysteretic high-spin (HS) to low-spin (LS) transition, and vice versa, rendering them suitable for...

This article describes highly luminescent ionic compounds in liquid and crystalline states, where a naphthalene moiety is conjugated to an imidazolium center decorated with two different lengths of alkyl chains.