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Perhydroazulenes-A New Class of Liquid Crystalline Materials

H Hopf, Z Hussain, RS Menon, V Raev, PG Jones…

Index: Hopf, Henning; Hussain, Zakir; Menon, Rajeev S.; Raev, Vitaly; Jones, Peter G.; Pohl, Ludwig M. Synlett, 2011 , # 9 p. 1273 - 1276

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Abstract

Abstract A new class of mesogenic compounds, the perhydroazulenes, carrying substituents in their para positions (HAZ derivatives), has been synthesized. The new liquid crystalline materials display a broad enantiotropic nemantic mesophase slightly above room temperature without any additional smectic phase. Their physical properties reveal that the perhydroazulene moiety can replace the currently often used cyclohexyl and ...