Chemistry and physics of lipids

Carbohydrate liquid crystals: Synthesis and characterisation of the methyl-6-O-(n-acyl)-α-d-glucopyranosides

AG Cook, JL Wardell, CT Imrie

Index: Cook, Andrew G.; Wardell, James L.; Imrie, Corrie T. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 2011 , vol. 164, # 2 p. 118 - 124

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Abstract

Seven members of the methyl-6-O-(n-acyl)-α-d-glucopyranosides have been synthesised and their transitional properties determined. The undecanoyl and octadecanoyl members do not exhibit liquid crystallinity while the members having chain lengths between dodecanoyl and hexadecanoyl exhibit a monotropic smectic A phase. Variable temperature infrared spectroscopy reveals that the hydrogen bonding within the system shows a marked ...