Cholesterol-based hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals

Autor: F. Hardouin, Jun-Woo Lee, Jung-Il Jin, Marie-France Achard
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Liquid Crystals. 30:1193-1199
ISSN: 1366-5855
0267-8292
DOI: 10.1080/02678290310001599233
Popis: Hydrogen bonding is a powerful tool for assembling molecules and building new liquid crystalline structures. In this study, non-symmetric dimesogens were prepared by intermolecular hydrogen bonding between rationally designed H-bond donor (3-cholesteryloxycarbonylpentanoic acid) and acceptor (4-(pyridine-4-ylmethyleneimino)phenyl 4-alkoxybenzoate) moieties. Their liquid crystalline properties were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, polarized optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Cholesteric and smectic phases were observed. As for the covalently linked dimesogens, several types of smectic periodicities occur for these H-bonded cholesteryl compounds depending on the molecular parameters.
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