Liquid crystals based on hypervalent sulfur fluorides: Exploring the steric effects of ortho-fluorine substituents

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3095-3100

  Kirsch, Peer ^a   Hahn, Alexander ^a  

^a MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density functional calculations; Fluorination; Hypervalent sulfur fluorides; Liquid crystals; Mesogens; Molecular modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544452743     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200500125     Document Type: Article

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