Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.612, No.1, 183-190, 2015
A Novel Series of Chiral Fluorinated Organosiloxane Liquid Crystals
The synthesis and characterization of a series of chiral fluorinated low molar mass organosiloxane materials is presented. The mesogenic moiety is similar to that in the TSiKN65F mesogen reported by Naciri etal., which displays a de Vries-type S-A* phase. The one parameter varied across the series reported herein is the length of the alkyl chain linking the mesogen moiety to the siloxane tail.