Design of liquid crystals with "de Vries-like" properties: Organosiloxane mesogen with a 5-phenylpyrimidine core

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 13842-13843

  Roberts, Jeffrey C ^a   Kapemaum, Nadia ^b   Giesselmann, Frank ^b   Lemieux, Robert P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; SILOXANE;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEMETHYLATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GEOMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLARIZATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PYRIMIDINES; SILOXANES; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 54249157930     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja805672q     Document Type: Article

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