主催: 日本液晶学会
会議名: 2000年 日本液晶学会討論会
開催地: くにびきメッセ
開催日: 2000/10/25 - 2000/10/27
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Molecular orbital (MO) calculation and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation were carried out for a set of smectic liquid crystalline molecules, 8O-O8 (4-octyloxyphenyl-4'-octyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate) and 8O-8 (4-octylphenyl-4'-octyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate), to understand the molecular origin of different crystalline structure formation and to predict their conformational property in liquid crystalline phases. The results of MO and MD analyses indicate that the structure of 8O-O8 and 8O-8 in crystalline phase is essentially determined by intramolecular interactions and the experimentally observed structure is chosen as a consequence of intermolecular packing constraints.