側鎖にコレステリル基を有する脂肪族ポリエステルの液晶性

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It is said that the highly ordered structure of liquid crystalline phase (smectic A phase) is similar to that of lipid bilayer. So we would think that the layer structure of liquid crystal is deeply relative to the appearance of biological function. In this study, we synthesized liquid crystalline aliphatic polyesters containing cholesterol moiety in the side chain and examined their thermal properties. The polyester without alkylspacer(m) showed any liquid crystalline phase. However in case of m=2,4,6, the polyesters showed a focalconics texture by polarized optical microscope measurement and were characteristic of smectic A phase.