Thermotropic Liquid Crystals Based on Oligosaccharides.<i>n</i>-Alkyl 1-<i>O</i>-<i>β</i>-D-Cellobiosides
作者:Yung-Dae Ma、Akihiko Takada、Makoto Sugiura、Takeshi Fukuda、Takeaki Miyamoto、Junji Watanabe
DOI:10.1246/bcsj.67.346
日期:1994.2
n-Alkyl 1-O-β-d-cellobiosides with an alkyl length ranging from 7 to 18 in carbon number m were synthesized, and their thermal properties were studied in comparison with those of the already-known monosaccharide homologues, n-alkyl 1-O-β-d-glucopyranosides. The cellobiosides were found to exhibit a thermotropic mesophase at higher temperatures than the glucopyranosides. Depending on m and thermal history, the cellobiosides showed various textures such as homeotropic, transient bâtonnets, polygonal, and fan-shaped textures. Like in the case of the monosaccharide homologues, the difficulty of aligning the samples prohibited a full classification of the mesophase, but the X-ray diffractograms of the unaligned cellobiosides indicated that their mesophase belongs to smectic A(or less possibly, smectic C). The m dependence of the lamella thickness was much weaker than (about half) that of the monosaccharide homologues. Possible molecular arrangements of the cellobiosides in the mesophase were presented.
合成了碳数范围在7到18之间的n-烷基-1-O-β-D-纤维二糖苷,并与已知的单糖同系物n-烷基-1-O-β-D-吡喃葡萄糖苷进行了热性能比较研究。研究发现,纤维二糖苷在比葡萄糖苷更高的温度下表现出热致介晶相。根据烷基链长和热历史的不同,纤维二糖苷呈现出均向性、短暂的杆状、多边形和扇形等不同织构。与单糖同系物类似,由于样品取向困难,无法对介晶相进行完整分类,但未取向纤维二糖苷的X射线衍射图谱表明其介晶相属于层状A相(或较小可能为层状C相)。层厚度随烷基链长的变化比单糖同系物弱得多(约为后者的一半)。文中还提出了纤维二糖苷在介晶相中可能的分子排列方式。