Combinatorial organic materials research (COMR): design, synthesis and screening of a 225-membered materials library of liquid crystalline fluorinated p-quaterphenyls†
Abstract
The rapid solution phase synthesis of novel liquid crystalline materials is demonstrated by utilising combinatorial and parallel methods for the preparation of a library of 225 differently fluorinated 4,4‴-dipropyl-p-quaterphenyls. Chemical diversity was introduced into the growing oligomers via a convergent synthetic sequence of iodinations and Suzuki cross-couplings by using various fluorinated