Development of ionic liquid crystals based on pyridinium and picolinium cations

The search for novel materials and technologies with improved performance increased in the last decades. In particular, ionic liquid crystals (ILCs), a modern class of advanced that benefits from synergistic properties liquids crystals, are playing an important role different areas knowledge, attracting interest academia industry, driven by their peculiar tailoring ability. Herein, it comprises brief synopsis several pyridinium picolinium ILCs previously prepared to understand how mesomorphism conductivity profiles affected small structural changes terms methyl group position alkyl chain length, providing insights into future design functional simple anionic exchange. Moreover, microwave-assisted reactions were emphasised as greener synthetic method prepare through alkylation, which can also be applied other organic salts.