Green chemistry approach to the synthesis of liquid crystalline materials

S Kumar, HK Bisoyi, SK Pal

Index: Kumar, Sandeep; Bisoyi, Hari Krishna; Pal, Santanu Kumar Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 2008 , vol. 480, # 1 p. 287 - 294

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Abstract

This article presents a simple, rapid, economic and environmentally acceptable microwave promoted “green chemistry” approach to the synthesis of some conventional and non- conventional liquid crystalline materials. Alkylation of 4′-hydroxy-4-biphenylcarbonitrile with various alkyl halides under microwave irradiation furnished alkoxycynobiphenyl-based calamitic liquid crystals in very high yield within one minute. Similarly, terminally- ...