Odd-even effects in the thermotropic and optical properties of chiral triplet liquid crystals |
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Authors: | Antonius T M Marcelis Arie Koudijs Ernst J R Sudh lter |
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a Department of Organic Chemistry, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | A series of chiral triplet liquid crystalline compounds with a central biphenyl group to which two dihydrocholesteryl groups are attached via two flexible alkanoate spacers has been prepared and investigated. As a function of spacer length, these compounds show strong odd-even effects for the phase transition temperatures, the corresponding entropy changes and the selective reflection wavelengths associated with the chiral nematic phases. Asymmetrical compounds with one odd and one even number of methylene groups in their spacers have properties intermediate between those of symmetrical compounds with two odd or two even spacers. |
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