Development of polar order in liquid crystalline phases of a banana compound with a unique sequence of three orthogonal phases

Christina Keith; Marko Prehm; Yuri P Panarin; Jagdish K Vij; Carsten Tschierske

doi:10.1039/c001736a

Development of polar order in liquid crystalline phases of a banana compound with a unique sequence of three orthogonal phases

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Jun 7;46(21):3702-4. doi: 10.1039/c001736a. Epub 2010 Apr 13.

Authors

Christina Keith¹, Marko Prehm, Yuri P Panarin, Jagdish K Vij, Carsten Tschierske

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes Str. 2, 06120 Halle, Germany.

PMID: 20390197
DOI: 10.1039/c001736a

Abstract

Alkyl substituted 4-cyanoresorcinol 1,3-bisbenzoates with terephthalate based rod-like wings show a series of three orthogonal smectic phases SmA-SmAP(R)-SmAP(A).