Title

The effect of olefinic terminal chains on the mesomorphic properties of 4,4 '-disubstituted diphenyldiacetylenes

Authors

Authors

M. E. Neubert; D. G. Abdallah; S. S. Keast; J. M. Kim; S. Lee; R. M. Stayshich;M. E. Walsh

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Liq. Cryst.

Keywords

DIACETYLENE LIQUID-CRYSTALS; HIGH-BIREFRINGENCE; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Crystallography; Materials Science, ; Multidisciplinary

Abstract

New diphenyldiacetylenes of the type [GRAPHICS] with A, B = H and/or F; m = 0, 1; n = 1-4; and X = CNH2n+1, F, CF3 or CN were synthesized and their mesomorphic properties determined by hot stage polarizing microscopy and DSC. When m = 0, all of these compounds showed only a nematic phase except when X = CF3 when both nematic and smectic A phases were seen. Both clearing and melting temperatures were higher than those reported for substitution with the corresponding alkyl chains but the much larger increase in clearing temperatures produced considerably wider nematic phases. Eutectic mixtures of a few of these olefins yielded nematic materials also having much wider temperature ranges and higher clearing temperatures than the eutectic mixtures of the alkyl compounds, while retaining their high birefringence and low viscosities. Such materials are of interest for beam-steering devices. Four of the diacetylenes with m = 1 (A, B = H) were also prepared (X = C6H13, F, n = 2, 3). When X was C6H13 (n = 2), the nematic range was smaller in the 2- than in the 1-olefin but wider than in the alkyl series. When X = F, either no nematic phase or a monotropic one was observed, whereas the 1-olefins gave a much wider nematic phase. Both transition temperatures were lower than those for the corresponding 1-olefin and alkyl analogues. The compound with X = C6H13 and n = 2 had a melting temperature below room temperature.

Journal Title

Liquid Crystals

Volume

30

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

711

Last Page

731

WOS Identifier

WOS:000183421800009

ISSN

0267-8292

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