- Influence of fluoro substituents on the mesophase behaviour of banana-shaped molecules
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Three new series of bent-shaped five-ring liquid crystals, based on the ester of isophthalic acid as the central core and azomethine linkages, are presented. They differ by the number and the position of halogeno substituents on the outer rings. This lateral substitution strongly influences the type of mesophases formed. Calculations were performed to determine the modification of the distribution of charge along the different molecules.
- Bedel,Rouillon,Marcerou,Laguerre,Nguyen,Achard
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p. 2214 - 2220
(2007/10/03)
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- Novel halogen-containing ester compounds, and their intermediates, and method of producing the same as well as liquid crystal compositions containing the same and light switching elements
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This invention provides a novel halogen-containing ester compound represented by the following general formula (I): STR1 (wherein R is an alkyl group, A is selected from a single bond, --O--, --COO-- and --CO--, both of X and Y are halogen atoms or either one of X and Y is a halogen atom and the other is a hydrogen atom, each of m and n is 0 or 1, m+n=0 or 1, each of k and l is an integer of 1 or more, provide kl), a liquid crystal composition and a light switching element each containing the above compound as well as a novel fluorophenol compound represented by the following general formula (II): STR2 (wherein each of k and l is an integer of 1 or more, provided kl) as an intermediate for the synthesis of the above ester compound and a method of producing the same.
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- The Synthesis and Liquid Crystal Properties of Some Laterally Fluorinated trans-Cyclohexane-1-carboxylate and Benzoate Esters
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A large number of laterally fluorinated 4-n-alkyl- and -alkoxy-phenyl 4'-n-alkyl- and -alkoxy-bezoates and 4-n-alkylphenyl trans-4'-n-alkyl- and -alkoxy-cyclohexane-1-carboxylates were synthesised.In these compounds, the lateral fluoro-substituent was situated in either the phenol or the carboxylic acid moiety of the molecules for the benzoate esters, but only in the phenol moiety for the trans-cyclohexane-1-carboxylate esters.The nematic thermal stabilities for the fluorophenyl bezoate and trans-cyclohexane-1-carboxylate esters and the fluorobenzoate esters were compared with those for the corresponding non-fluorinated analogues.A nematic thermal efficiency order was derived for the 4-n-alkyl-fluorophenyl 4-n-alkylbezoate and trans-4-n-alkylcyclohexane-1-carboxylate esters, but only in the case of the latter esters, which were extensively examined, was the smectic tendency of the system investigated.Explanations are given for the observed nematic and smectic thermal stabilities of the titled esters, and some of their physical properties are discussed.
- Gray, G. W.,Hogg, C.,Lacey, D.
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