Induction of columnar and smectic phases for spiropyran derivatives: effects of acidichromism and photochromism.

Liquid-crystalline (LC) properties have been induced in a number of spiropyran derivatives by the addition of methanesulfonic acid. Spiropyran derivatives containing one or two gallic acid moieties with one, two, or three long alkyl chains were prepared. Acid-induced spiro-protonated-merocyanine isomerization induced mesomorphism for these materials. Equimolar mixtures of methanesulfonic acid and the spiropyran derivatives with one or two dodecyloxy chains exhibited smectic A phases, whereas the spiropyran derivatives containing the gallic acid moiety with three dodecyloxy chains showed hexagonal columnar phases. On the contrary, photoirradiation of the spiropyran compounds in the bulk liquid state did not lead to the induction of mesomorphism, although the merocyanine form was induced. These results suggest that these merocyanine derivatives with ionic and nonionic moieties cannot simply form nanosegregated LC structures. Complex formation of the merocyanine form with methanesulfonic acid may play a key role in the formation of LC molecular assemblies.

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