New series of chiral liquid crystalline compounds, (S)-[4-n-alkyloxy-benzoyloxyphenyl]-4'-[(2-n-alkyloxy)propionyloxy]benzoate (QMn/m), were synthesised. Polymorphism of the new compounds was investigated by polarising microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. All members of the homologous series showed enantiotropic SmC* and N* mesophases except one compound having the longest alkyl chain in both terminal groups. The spontaneous polarisation of these ferroelectric liquid crystalline compounds is about 110-130 nC/cm(2). The temperature dependence of the dielectric permittivity was measured for all the compounds studied. Several ferroelectric binary mixtures were prepared in order to get a wide enantiotropic chiral SmC* phase at ambient temperature.