Effect of lateral substitution by fluorine and bromine atoms in ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials containing a 2‐alkoxypropanoate unit
- 29 October 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 34 (10), 1185-1192
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02678290701527461
Abstract
Two homologous series of ferroelectric liquid crystalline compounds with 2‐alkoxypropanoate chiral unit containing biphenyl benzoate core laterally substituted by fluorine and bromine have been synthesized and studied. All compounds possess the ferroelectric smectic C* phase over a broad temperature range. For bromine‐substituted compounds values of spontaneous polarization reach high values up to 250 nC cm−2. The effects of the lateral substitution on the phenyl ring far from the chiral centre by methyl and methoxy groups, fluorine, chlorine and bromine atoms on mesomorphic properties and on values of the spontaneous polarization are discussed.Keywords
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