Magnetic Investigations on Liquid Crystalline Metallopolymers

Abstract

In this contribution, magnetic investigations on materials, which essentially combine mesogenic and polymeric properties, were presented. In the glassy and the smectic phase of a copper(II) containing polymer we observed remarkable antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between the copper centers, whereas in the isotropic phase, the magnetism followed the Curie-Weiss law. The monomeric model compound showed Curie-Weiss behaviour. In addition, we describe the magnetic behaviour of mesogenic compounds, resulting from the incorporation of rare-earth ions in chelating units of the liquid-crystalline Schiff base polymer.