双取代哒嗪有机液晶的合成、结构及刚性实对介晶性的影响

合成了16个中心桥连基为哒嗪环、酯基或CH=N基,含有苯环、不同刚性实长度和不同末端链长的哒嗪化合物,并通过DSC对其介晶进行了表征。研究表明,末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响,但对相变温度范围影响较小,而刚性实长度对其影响却较大。     

含二茂铁的双取代哒嗪的合成和介晶性

合成了8个未见报道的中心桥连基为哒嗪环、酯基、CHN基,含有二茂铁、三个苯环、不同末端链长度的双取代哒嗪化合物,并通过示差扫描量热仪(DSC)对其介晶性进行了表征.研究表明,末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响,但对相变温度范围影响较小.     

含胆甾基的双取代哒嗪的合成和介晶性

合成了8个未见报道的中心桥连基为哒嗪环、酯基、CH＝N基,含有胆甾基、二个苯环、不同末端链长度的双取代哒嗪化合物,并通过示差扫描量热法(DSC)对其介晶性进行了表征.研究表明,末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响,但对相变温度范围影响较小.     

含胆甾基、西佛碱的3,6-双取代哒嗪的合成和介晶性

合成了8个未见报道的中心桥连基为酯基、CH＝N基, 含有哒嗪环、胆甾基、二个苯环、不同末端链长度的双取代哒嗪化合物, 并通过示差扫描量热法(DSC)对其介晶性进行了表征. 研究表明, 末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响, 但对相变温度范围影响较小.     

含西佛碱的3,6-双取代哒嗪的合成和介晶性

合成了8个中心桥连基为哒嗪环、酯基、CH=N基,含有胆甾基、三个苯环、不同未端链长度的双取代哒嗪化合物,并通过示差扫描量热法（DSC）对其介晶性进行了表征。研究表明,末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响,但对相变温度范围影响小。     

3-甲氧基-6-(4-烷氧苯基)哒嗪的合成及介晶性研究

在三苯基膦钯的催化下，由3－氯－3－甲氧基哒嗪与对烷氧苯基硼酸偶联合成了7种具有液晶性的中心桥连基为哒嗪环，不同烷氧基长度的含有苯环的哒嗪衍生物，并通过DSC和偏光显微镜对其介晶性进行了表征。研究表明，末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温度均有影响，但对相变温度的影响较小。     

3-烷氧基-6-（4-甲氧羰基苯基）哒嗪的合成及介晶性研究

3，6-二氯哒嗪和醇在相转移催化剂(C_4H_9)_4NBr和浓碱作用下，合成3-氯- 6-烷氧基哒嗪，在三苯基膦钯的催化下，用3-氯-6-烷氧基哒嗪与对甲氧羰基苯基 硼酸偶联，并以较好产率合成了八种中心桥连基为哒嗪环，含有苯环、酯基、不同 长度烷氧基的哒嗪衍生物，并通过差示扫描量热法（DSC）对其介晶性进行了表征 ，同时发现其中七种都具有介晶性。研究表明，末端链长度对相变温度和清亮点温 度均有影响。     

无柔性末端链的二茂铁液晶化合物的合成、结构及取代基对介晶性的影响

合成了中心桥键为酯基和Schiff碱基连接且分子中含4个苯环的17个化合物,其中有带支链和不带支链的化合物,化合物的结构通过IR,NMR和元素分析进行表征,其介晶性通过DSC和偏光显微镜进行研究.讨论了取代基对介晶性的影响.结果表明,该类型结构的二茂铁化合物绝大多数具有液晶性,取代基对介晶性的影响较小.     

点击化学合成盘-棒-盘状液晶三聚体

本文设计并合成了一系列盘-棒-盘状液晶三聚体.此类三聚体由两个相同的苯并菲盘状介晶基元和一个联苯棒状介晶基元通过CuI-NEt3体系催化端基炔和端基叠氮化合物的点击反应连接形成.该三聚体结构通过核磁、红外和高分辨质谱表征;介晶性通过偏光显微镜(POM)、差示扫描量热法(DSC)和X射线衍射(XRD)进行了研究.结果显示:此类液晶三聚体均为室温液晶,呈现四方柱状相(Colr).连接3个介晶基元的柔性间隔基的长度对化合物的相转变温度具有明显影响.     

含介晶结构单元化合物改性环氧树脂E—51／DDM固化体系的动态力学行为

合成和表征了含有介晶结构单元的单环氧官能团化合物4-(4'-甲基基苯甲酰氧基)苯基缩水甘油醚(MPEP),以一定比例的MPEP加入到环氧树脂E-51/4,4'-二氨基二苯基甲烷(DDM)固化体系,获得了一系列在高分子链上悬挂介晶结构单元的固化网络结构,并对其动态力学行为进行了表征,侧链上介晶结构单元的引入使固化体系的交联密度降低,链段柔顺性增加,表现为与未加MPEP的体系相比,含有介晶结构单元的体系的玻璃化温度和动态模量下降,而且MPEP的加量越大,玻璃化温度和动态模量下降幅度越大.     

Influence of the structure of the mesogenic core on the thermotropic properties of ω-unsaturated fluorinated liquid crystals

Three series of calamitic liquid crystals have been prepared, consisting of a mesogenic core attached to which is a perfluorinated chain via a thioester linkage, and a hydrocarbon chain containing a terminal double bond. The rigid core is either a monophenyl, biphenyl or phenyl benzoate group. The mesomorphic properties were characterized by polarizing optical microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. The influence of the structure of the mesogenic core and of the hydrocarbon chain length on mesomorphic behaviour was studied. Increasing the length of the alkyl chain strongly reduces the mesomorphic behaviour while increasing the number of aromatic rings in the core increases the transition temperatures, with the widest LC range observed for derivatives with the phenyl benzoate core. The introduction of a single ring as the mesogenic core is considered of great interest in the development of low cost liquid crystal materials.     

Synthesis and optical behaviour of hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals based on a chiral pyridine derivative

Three series of cholesteryl-containing supramolecular hydrogen-bonded (H-bonded) liquid crystal (LC) complexes with different number of fluoro-substituent were synthesised and characterised. Cholesteryl isonicotinate as proton acceptor and 4-n-alkoxybenzoic acids with or without fluoro-substituent as proton donor had been mixed in tetrahydrofuran to obtain H-bonded LC complexes. The effect of lateral substitution and the length of terminal chain in the H-bonded precursors on the formation of the supramolecular complexes had been examined. It was found that the introduction of fluoro substituent on the induced mesogens could widen the molecular width and thus reduce the molecular aspect ratio of the complexes, therefore it could lead to compress the formation of the LCs. However, the fluoro substituent played a positive role in enhancing the intermolecular interactions and stabilising the H-bond structure of the complexes. The influence of terminal length on the mesogenic behaviours is also discussed. On increasing the spacer length, the clear point and the thermal range of induced mesophase-like cholesteric phase decreased, and an induced chiral smectic phase began to appear in some complexes with long terminal tails.     

Symmetrical and asymmetrical liquid crystal dimers: synthesis,characterisation and mesomorphic behaviour

ABSTRACT

A series of new asymmetrical liquid crystal dimers, R_nO–S2O–OR_n (n = 2–10), linked by an ethylene spacer having carbothiol – COS – and carboxyl – COO – linkages to the core centre of the molecule and bearing different lengths of terminal alkoxy chains were synthesised in order to study the effects of the length of the terminal alkoxy chains on mesomorphic properties. As well as, five symmetrical and asymmetrical dimers linked by butylene spacers bearing different linkages to the core and various terminal chains were also synthesized in order to study the effect of the nature of the spacer and terminal groups. The structures of the synthesised dimers were confirmed by physico-chemical techniques, i.e. FTIR, NMR and mass spectra. Differential scanning calorimetry and polarising optical microscopy verified the liquid crystal behaviour transition temperatures. The isotropic transition temperatures of the dimers R_nO–S2O–OR_n (n = 2–10) decreased with increasing length of alkoxy chain. Structural effects on the mesomorphic and physical properties were investigated in terms of alteration of carboxylate and thioester groups linking the spacer. The mesomorphic investigation reveals that all the dimers formed an enantiotropic Nematic phase except for dimer HO2SH which is not a liquid crystal.     

Synthesis,Characterization and Investigation of Side Chain Length and/or Substituents Effect on the Liquid Crystal Properties of New Mesogens

New substituted and unsubstituted phenol based mesogene series having an azo central linkage was synthesized by fixing phenol as rigid core unit with aromatic amine. The terminal –OH group was esterified successively by long alkyl chain acid chloride of variable length (n=2, 6, 11, 15, 17). All 25 synthesized compounds exhibit mesomorphism. The effect of side chain length and substituents on the stability of liquid crystals was studied. The study reveals that nitro substituent destabilizes nematic and smectic phases more than floro substituent. Furthermore, the transition temperature decreases as the length of side chain increases.     

Two-dimensional self-assembly of linear molecular rods at the liquid/solid interface

We report on the synthesis and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) studies of a series of linear molecular rods (1-5) comprising different numbers and/or spatial arrangements of perfluorinated benzene and benzene subunits interlinked with diacetylenes in the para position and decorated with or without terminal dodecyl chains. The molecules organize themselves into well-ordered 2D crystal structures at the liquid/solid interface through intermolecular and molecule-substrate interactions. Whereas the molecules substituted by dodecyl chains form the lamellar structures with alternating rigid core rows and alkyl chain rows, the unsubstituted ones change the orientation of the rigid backbones with respect to the lamellar axis. The molecular arrangement is not influenced by fluoro substituents on any phenyl ring of the backbone, which suggests that the interactions between the π-conjugated backbones are dominated by close packing rather than by the dipole moments of the rods or fluorine-based intermolecular interactions.     

Lateral substituted phenyl biphenylcarboxylates ‒ non-chiral analogues of ferroelectric liquid crystals

ABSTRACT

We report mesomorphic properties of non-chiral liquid crystalline molecules and study the effect of lateral halogen (fluoro, chloro) substitution in the molecular core and the length of terminal chains. We have prepared nine homologue series with the molecular core substituted at different positions with respect to the ester linkage group. Additionally, we have modified the length of both terminal alkyl chains (hexyl, octyl, decyl and dodecyl) symmetrically for both terminal chains. The effects of the lateral substitution and the chain length are analysed with respect of the possibility to reduce the transition temperatures and tune the properties of presented liquid crystalline molecules.