Design and synthesis of a new family of fluorinated liquid crystals

Valentine G Nenajdenko; Aleksey A Goldberg; Vasily M Muzalevskiy; Elizabeth S Balenkova; Aleksey V Shastin

doi:10.1002/chem.201203315

Design and synthesis of a new family of fluorinated liquid crystals

Chemistry. 2013 Feb 11;19(7):2370-83. doi: 10.1002/chem.201203315. Epub 2013 Jan 4.

Authors

Valentine G Nenajdenko¹, Aleksey A Goldberg, Vasily M Muzalevskiy, Elizabeth S Balenkova, Aleksey V Shastin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119992, Russia. nen@acylium.chem.msu.ru

PMID: 23292962
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201203315

Abstract

A convenient and simple three-step pathway to the new family of CF(2)CF(2)S-bridged alkanes and CF(2)S-, CF(2)O-bridged alkenes and alkynes was elaborated by using catalytic olefination reaction as a key step of the synthetic sequence. The obtained compounds revealed attractive liquid crystalline characteristics.