Synthesis and Properties of Laterary Substituted Liquid crystals

Abstract

Liquid crystal compounds with short alkyl group show nematic phase and with long alkyl group show smectic phase. But, I have already reported that laterary alkyl or alkenyl substituted alkoxyphenylbicyclohexanes with short alkoxy group unusually showzed smectic phase and with long alkoxy group showed nematic phase. In this study, laterary alkyl or alkenyl substituted acyloxyderivatives were synthesized. Their liquid crystal properties are discussed.