A bent and asymmetrically hindered chiral alkyl chain in smectic-A phase of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal as observed by 2H-NMR

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-11

  Yoshida, Shohei ^a   Jin, Bo ^a   Takanishi, Yoichi ^a   Tokumaru, Koh ^a   Ishikawa, Ken ^a   Takezoe, Hideo ^a   Fukuda, Atsuo ^b   Kusumoto, Tetsuo ^c   Nakai, Toshihito ^d   Miyajima, Seiichi ^e  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

2H NMR; Antiferroelectric liquid crystal; Asymmetrically hindered alkyl chain; Bent molecular structure; Conformational chirality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033443167     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.68.9     Document Type: Article

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