Frustrated liquid crystals: synthesis and mesomorphic behavior of unsymmetrical dimers possessing chiral and fluorescent entities

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2463-2472

  Yelamaggad, Channabasaveshwar V ^a   Bonde, Nilesh L ^b   Achalkumar, Ammathnadu S ^a   Shankar Rao, Doddamane S ^a   Prasad, Subbarao Krishna ^a   Prajapati, Ashish K ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

^b M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; CHOLESTEROL; COVALENT BONDS; DIMERS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

FLUORESCENT DIMERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DIMERS; OLIGOMESOGENS; THERMOTROPIC BEHAVIOR;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34249667254     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm0625880     Document Type: Article

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