Molecular design of amphitropic liquid crystalline carbohydrates–amphiphilic N-methyl-glucamides exhibiting lamellar, columnar or cubic mesophases
Abstract
Amphiphilic 1-deoxy-1-(N-methylbenzamido)-D-glucitols display smectic, hexagonal columnar or discontinuous cubic thermotropic liquid crystalline phases depending on the number of alkyl chains attached to the benzamido group.