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A supramolecular liquid crystal is a self-assembling chemical system of which component molecules are bonded by non-covalent bonds such as a hydrogen bond, as a result, it exhibits a liquid crystallinity. It is well known that nucleic acid bases form hydrogen-bonded assemblies and each nucleobase specifically forms a Watson-Crick base pair with its complementary partner in DNA double helix structure. We focused on the supramolecular complex containing nucleic acid bases which is expected to exhibit a liquid crystallinity. In this study, a series of adenine and thymine derivatives were synthesized and the phase transition behavior of their complexes was investigated.
