Synthesis and mesogenic properties of new liquid crystals bearing a chiral trioxadecalin system are described. Boron-containing three-ring systems with a lateral methoxy group show cholesteric, TGBA and smectic A phases. Molecules containing four or five rings show mostly smectic C* phases. The insertion of a triple bond leads to ferroelectric smectic C* phases, but compounds with a flexible spacer between the rings show only monotropic smectic A phases. Lateral fluorination of the aromatic rings leads, depending on the position of the fluorine, either to stabilised smectic phases with lower transition temperatures or to cholesteric phases with complete suppression of all smectic phases.
本文描述了带有手性三
氧杂
萘烷体系的新型
液晶的合成和介电性质。带有一个侧甲
氧基的含
硼三环系统显示出
胆固醇相、
TGBA 相和共晶 A 相。含有四环或五环的分子主要呈现出平滑的 C* 相。插入一个三键会导致
铁电共晶 C* 相,但环间有柔性间隔的化合物只显示单向共晶 A 相。根据
氟的位置,芳香环的侧向
氟化会导致过渡温度较低的稳定共晶相或完全抑制所有共晶相的胆甾相。