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Synthesis of new optically active cyanocyclopropanes as chiral dopants for ferroelectric liquid crystals

T Kusumoto, A Nakayama, K Sato, T Hiyama…

Index: Kusumoto, Tetsuo; Nakayama, Akiko; Sato, Ken-ichi; Hiyama, Tamejiro; Takehara, Sadao; et al. Tetrahedron Letters, 1991 , vol. 32, # 7 p. 939 - 942

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Download full text in 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. ... Optically active 2-alkyl-1-aryl-1-cyanocyclopropanes were synthesized from 2-aryl-4-hydroxyalkanenitriles which in turn were obtained by the reaction of chiral 1,2-epoxyalkanes with the carbanions derived from arylacetonitriles. ... Optically active 2-alkyl-1-aryl-1-cyanocyclopropanes were ...