Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1995, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (3): 405.

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Structures and Liquid Crystalline Properties of Monoarmed Crown Ethers

QIN Jun1, XIE Ming-Gui2, HU Zi-Lun2, JIANG Qing2, ZHAO Hua-Ming2   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 630038;
    2. Department of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064
  • Received:1994-03-12 Revised:1994-09-30 Online:1995-03-24 Published:1995-03-24

Abstract: With the aid of CPK molecular model,three monoarmed alicyclic crown ether containing 15-crown-5 unit liquid crystals (1-3) were first synthesized.The transition temperatures were TKSc*-7.5 TSc*N 18.2 TNI23.6 for 1,TKI91.1 TIN82.6TNSc*70.4 TSc*K 50.3 for 2and TKC 33.87 TCN 46.7 TNI 64.4 for 3. The relationship between structures and properties was investigated,which revealed that monoarmed crown ether liquid crystals could possess mesomorphism not only when the ratio of molecular length to diameter was larger than 3,but also the molecular plarity was required.By inserting chiral group,chiral smetic phases were resulted.It is worth mentioning that the synthesis of crown ether liquid crystals with chirality is hitherto also a new attempt.

Key words: Crown ether liquid crystals, Liquid crystalline properties, Structures

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