University of Leeds

Owen Roger Lozman

Neville Boden

Richard James Bushby

Ekaterina Olegovna Arikanien

Andrew Wood

Gareth Headdock

Quayling Liu

Zhibao Lu

Andrew Paul McNeill

A mixture comprising a molecule of formula (I); in which A , A , A , A , A and A , which may be the same or different, are each N or &mdash;CH; Y , Y , Y , Y , Y and Y , which may be the same or different, are each hydrogen or C to C alkoxy; X , X , X , X , X and X , which may be the same or different, are each hydrogen, C to C alkoxy or alkyl C to C ; and R , R , R , R , R and R are each hydrogen, or each of R and R , R and R and R and R may form a bond; and a molecule of formula (II); in which R , R , R , R , R and R , which may be the same or different, are each alkyl or substituted (and/or chiral) alkyl C to C , acyl C to C , polyethyleneoxy, a flexible connection to a polymer backbone or part of a polymer backbone in homopolymers, copolymers or block copolymers; and B , B , B , B , B and B a, which may be the same or different, are each, hydrogen, alkyl C to C , alkoxy C to C , nitro, halogeno, cyano, amido, diazo or ester, e.g. alkyl C to C ester.

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Owen Roger Lozman