Study of New Liquid Crystal Materials (II): Synthesis and Mesomorphic Properties of Alkoxymethylene Substituted Phenyl Cyclohexanecarboxylates

T Kitamura, A Mukoh, S Era, T Fujii

Index: Kitamura; Mukoh; Era Molecular crystals and liquid crystals, 1984 , vol. 112, # 3-4 p. 319 - 324

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Abstract

Abstract The properties of alkoxymethylene-substituted-phenyl alkylcyclohexanecarboxylates are described. Such phenyl cyclohexanecarboxylates exhibit either a monotropic or an enantiotropic nematic phase. Their clearing points were lower than those of alkoxy-substituted-phenyl alkylcyclohexanecarboxylates, an effect considered to be due to the flexibility of the alkoxymethylene groups.