Download PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Cycloalkenones are shown to be mesogens and can be synthesised in near quantitative yields by a convergent palladium(0)-catalysed cross-coupling strategy; a 2-methyl group induces a change of phase from smectic to nematic. ... Palladium(0) catalysed couplings using 3-bromo-2-cycloalken ...