Design of Supramolecular Materials: Liquid-Crystalline Helicates - Metallofoldamers: Supramolecular Architectures from Helicates to Biomimetics - page 258

Figure 7.8 Idealized packing of the metallohelicate within the columnar mesophase.

OC n H 2n+1 OC n H 2n+1

H 2n+1 C n O OC n H 2n+1

2

O O

H 2n+1 C n O OC n H 2n+1

O N N O

N N N

16

2 [Cu(CH 3 CN) 4 ]BF 4

2+

OC n H 2n+1

OC n H 2n+1

H 2n+1 C n O

OC n H 2n+1

O

O

H 2n+1 C n O

OC n H 2n+1

N N

O

N N

O

Cu

Cu

N N

N N

N

N

O

H 2n+1 C n O

O

17

OC n H 2n+1

O

O

H 2n+1 C n O

OC n H 2n+1 OC n H 2n+1

OC n H 2n+1

Figure 7.9 Schematic representation the mesomorphic helicate 17 formed by a copper(I)
induced self-organization process of the segmented terpyridine ligand 16.