A new series of chiral Schiff's bases containing 2-hydroxybenzilidenea
niline moieties and their copper complexes were synthesized and studie
d by differential scanning calorimetry, polarized optical microscopy,
X-ray diffraction and EPR measurement. The results show that most of t
he Schiff's bases and only two of the copper complexes exhibited chira
l smectic liquid crystal phases.