Tetrahedron

Nanostructured columnar and cubic liquid-crystalline assemblies consisting of unconventional rigid mesogens based on triphenylmethanes

T Hatano, T Kato

Index: Hatano, Tsukasa; Kato, Takashi Tetrahedron, 2008 , vol. 64, # 36 p. 8368 - 8380

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Abstract

Liquid-crystalline (LC) molecules of unconventional shapes that form columnar and micellar cubic structures have been synthesized using triarylmethyl moieties as building blocks. The molecules have bowl-and dumbbell-shape. Despite the rigidity and bulkiness of the triarylmethyl moieties, the molecules form columnar and micellar cubic LC phases. The bowl- shaped molecules containing one triarylmethyl moiety show LC phases. The LC ...