A convienient synthesis of ferroelectric liquid crystals bearing the trifluoromethyl group

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0022-1139(00)80027-5

A practical synthetic route to a series of (R)- or (S)-(1-trifluoromethyl)alkyl 4-hydroxy-benzoates has been developed.These materials were prepared by the reaction of p-hydroxybenzoic acid with (R)- or (S)-1-(trifluoromethyl)alkanols in the presence of p