The author of 《Highly frustrated liquid crystal phases in optically active dimers: synthesis and rich phase transitional behavior》 were Nayak, Rashmi Ashwathama; Bhat, Sachin A.; Shanker, G.; Rao, D. S. Shankar; Yelamaggad, C. V.. And the article was published in New Journal of Chemistry in 2019. Product Details of 2623-87-2 The author mentioned the following in the article:
Herein the authors report on the synthesis and characterization of four new series of optically active, nonsym. dimers in which cholesterol is covalently linked to a Schiff base core through an ω-oxyalkanoyl spacer. While the Schiff base core is substituted with n-butyloxy, n-hexyloxy, n-octyloxy, n-decyloxy and n-dodecyloxy tails, three even-parity spacers, namely, 4-oxybutanoyl, 6-oxyhexanoyl, 8-oxyoctanoyl, and an odd-parity spacer, namely, 5-oxypentanoyl, were used to join the two cores. The length and parity of the spacer and the length of the terminal tail play a vital role in deciding the phase sequences of the dimers. In general, the dimers possessing an even-parity spacer display enantiotropic LC phases such as chiral nematic (N*), twist grain boundary (TGB), smectic A (SmA), chiral smectic C (SmC*) and twist grain boundary phase with SmC* slabs (TGBC*). Some of these dimers display TGBC* over a wide temperature range. The dimers with an odd-parity (5-oxypentanoyl) spacer display, unlike their even-membered counterparts, blue phases (BPIII/II/I); besides, they stabilize N* and/or unknown smectic (SmX) phases. The CD measurements were carried out as a function of temperature on the planar texture formed by three even-membered dimers and an odd-membered dimer. The occurrence of a strong neg. CD band in the N* phase of the even-membered dimers suggests a left-handed screw sense of the macroscopic helical structure, and the scenario is opposite in the case of an odd-membered dimer. In the experiment, the researchers used 4-Bromobutanoic acid(cas: 2623-87-2Product Details of 2623-87-2)
4-Bromobutanoic acid(cas: 2623-87-2) belongs to carboxylic acids. The chief chemical characteristic of the carboxylic acids is their acidity. They are generally more acidic than other organic compounds containing hydroxyl groups but are generally weaker than the familiar mineral acids (e.g., hydrochloric acid, HCl, sulfuric acid, H2SO4, etc.).Product Details of 2623-87-2
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