SUPPORTING INFORMATION Self-assembled bent-core side-chain liquid crystalline polymers Joaquín Barberá, Nélida Gimeno, Inmaculada Pintre, M. Blanca Ros* and José Luis Serrano Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, Química Orgánica, F. Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza and CSIC, 50009-Zaragoza (Spain) Synthesis of the compounds. All of the compounds were prepared according to the synthetic routes and following methods similar to those reported in the literature. The synthesis of stilbazoles 1 (m.p. 108.2 ºC) and 2 (m.p. 168.9 ºC) is reported in ref. 3. The synthesis of monomer M11 (m.p. 108 ºC) appears in ref. 10 and a similar method was followed to prepare M6 (K 81 ºC N 94 ºC I). Polymers P6 (m.p. 171 ºC) and P11 (m.p. 154 ºC) were prepared by radical polymerization of the corresponding monomers in DMF (10% w/v) with azobis(isobutyronitrile) (AIBN) (1% weight ratio) as reported elsewhere [see R. Gimenez et al. Polymer, (2005), 46, 9230–9242]. In situ photopolymerization. The photopolymerizable samples were prepared by dissolving the appropriate proportions of the reactive monomers, 1% (weight) of the photoinitiator IRGACURE 369 (CIBA Geigy) and 200 ppm of 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (thermal inhibitor) in freshly distilled dichloromethane. The solvent was evaporated at room temperature and the residual solvent was removed by heating the sample at 30 °C under vacuum overnight. 1