Issue 17, 2004
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Chemical Communications

The carbosilane unit as a stable building block for liquid crystal design: a new class of ferroelectric switching banana-shaped mesogens

Christina Keith,a   R. Amaranatha Reddy,b   Harald Hahn,c   Heinrich Langc  and  Carsten Tschierske*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Organic Chemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes Str. 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany
E-mail: Tschierske@chemie.uni-halle.de
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Tel: +49(0)345 5525664

b Institute of Physical Chemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Mühlpforte 1, D-06108 Halle, Germany

c Department of Chemistry, TU Chemnitz, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Str. der Nationen 62, D-09111 Chemnitz, Germany

Abstract

New banana shaped liquid crystals with a carbosilane unit at one end were synthesised and depending on the number of Si-atoms either antiferroelectric (AF) or ferroelectric (FE) switching polar smectic C phases have been obtained.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B407890J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
27 May 2004
Accepted
08 Jun 2004
First published
27 Jul 2004

Chem. Commun., 2004, 1898-1899

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The carbosilane unit as a stable building block for liquid crystal design: a new class of ferroelectric switching banana-shaped mesogens

C. Keith, R. A. Reddy, H. Hahn, H. Lang and C. Tschierske, Chem. Commun., 2004, 1898 DOI: 10.1039/B407890J

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