The author of 《Biphenylyl-1,2,4-oxadiazole based liquid crystals – synthesis, mesomorphism, effect of lateral monofluorination》 were Fouad, Farid S.; Ness, Todd; Wang, Kunlun; Ruth, Christopher E.; Britton, Sonia; Twieg, Robert J.. And the article was published in Liquid Crystals in 2019. Safety of 1-Bromo-4-ethoxy-2-fluorobenzene The author mentioned the following in the article:
Aiming at developing a new type of materials for functional applications, three series of new compounds were prepared, 3-(biphenylyl)-1,2,4-oxadiazoles, Series I; laterally mono-fluorinated 3-(biphenylyl)-1,2,4-oxadiazoles, Series II; and 5-(biphenylyl)-1,2,4-oxadiazoles, Series III. Liquid crystalline properties of these compounds were studied using differential scanning calorimetry and polarizing optical microscopy. Ten of the thirteen compounds in Series I are mesogenic forming either N or SmA phases depending on the length-to-width mol. ratio. Mesogens of the positional isomers, Series III are both N and SmA. Monofluorination of the biphenylyl group at either the central or the terminal phenylene rings, Series III, resulted in the formation of nematic mesogens with low phase transition temperatures and broad nematic phase range. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, 1-Bromo-4-ethoxy-2-fluorobenzene(cas: 107713-66-6Safety of 1-Bromo-4-ethoxy-2-fluorobenzene)
1-Bromo-4-ethoxy-2-fluorobenzene(cas: 107713-66-6) belongs to organobromine compounds.The reactivity of organobromine compounds resembles but is intermediate between the reactivity of organochlorine and organoiodine compounds. Safety of 1-Bromo-4-ethoxy-2-fluorobenzene Dehydrobromination, Grignard reactions, reductive coupling, Wittig reaction, and several nucleophilic substitution reactions are some of the principal reactions which involve organic bromides.
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