Designing banana-shaped liquid crystals without Schiff's base units: m- Terphenyls, 2,6-diphenylpyridines and V-shaped tolane derivatives

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 661-672

  Shen, Dong ^a   Diele, Siegmar ^b   Pelzl, Gerhard ^b   Wirth, Ina ^b   Tschierske, Carsten ^a  

^a Inst fur Organische Chem der M   (Germany)

^b Inst fur Physikalische Chem der M   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; ESTER; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; SCHIFF BASE; TERPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; ESTERIFICATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MELTING POINT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLARIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032948966     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a808275h     Document Type: Article

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