title: Columnar liquid crystallinity and mechanochromism in cationic platinum(II) complexes.
abstract: Cationic square planar Pt(II) complexes are reported with high degrees of intermolecular association. These complexes display thermotropic columnar liquid crystalline behavior in spite of having only a single side chain. Crystals undergo mechanochromic transformations that can be reversed with solvent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
authors.forename: Markrete
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krikorian
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Timothy M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Swager