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Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.479, 1251-1259, 2007
Synthesis and characterization of novel all-organic liquid crystalline radicals
We have synthesized a new series of all-organic liquid crystalline (LC) radical compounds (2), which are the structural isomers of the previously reported series (1) containing a chiral nitroxide unit in the mesogen core. Only difference between the two isomers is the orientation in the ester functionality (-OCO- vs -COO-). The new LC compounds 2 with C4 to C8 alkoxy terminal chains showed the distinct odd-even effects of alkoxy terminal chains with respect to the thermal stability of nematic phases, while such effects were not observed for the isomers 1.
Keywords:chiral nitroxide;nematic phase;nitroxyl radical;odd-even effects;paramagnetic liquid crystals