Oa. Kharitonova et al., SYNTHESIS AND MAGNETOOPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MESOMORPHIC COMPLEXES OF LANTHANIDES WITH BETA-AMINOVINYL KETONES, Russian chemical bulletin, 45(9), 1996, pp. 2213-2215
Complexes of the composition L(LH)(2)Ln(NO3)(2) (Ln La, Dy, Gd, Er, Eu
, or Tb) were obtained by the reaction of beta-aminovinyl ketone (LH)
with rare earth metal nitrates. All the compounds synthesized are ther
motropic liquid crystals having the smectic S-A phase. The values of m
agnetic anisotropy of these complexes measured by magnetic birefringen
ce are fairly high.