Preparation and Properties of<i>C</i><sub>2</sub>-Symmetric Organic Radical Compounds Showing Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Properties
作者:Naohiko Ikuma、Yoshiaki Uchida、Rui Tamura、Katsuaki Suzuki、Jun Yamauchi、Yoshio Aoki、Hiroyuki Nohira
DOI:10.1080/15421400903065325
日期:2009.9.3
We have synthesized a new class of liquid crystalline (LC) organic radical compounds 2, which are the C-2-symmetric derivatives of the previously reported compounds 1 containing a chiral nitroxide unit and an ester group in the mesogen core, and their LC properties have been fully characterized. The enantiomerically enriched 2 showed N* and SmC* phases. Their LC phase transition behavior is similar to that of 1, whereas the ferroelectric properties of the SmC* phase of (2S,5S)-2 differed from those of (2S,5S)-1. We discuss the origin of this difference in terms of their molecular structures optimized by molecular orbital calculations.