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The chiral pool as valuable natural source: New chiral mesogens made from lactic acid
Brombach,Neudoerfl,Blunk
, p. 62 - 74 (2011)
Twenty new enantiopure chiral materials have been synthesized, showing liquid crystalline phases of smectic (SmA*), twisted grain boundary (TGB) and cholesteric (N*) type. The central ester-linkage as well as the length of the attached alkyl-chains were varied in a systematic way and the effects of these structural changes on the liquid crystalline properties have been studied. The liquid crystalline phases were characterized by means of differential scanning calorimetry, polarisation microscopy as well as small angle X-ray diffraction (SAXS). Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
