Abstract
Temperature dependent measurements of the pitch of the cholesteric phase and the spontaneous polarization of the smectic C* phase are presented for five configurations of a thermotropic liquid crystal with two chiral centers. The temperature dependent chiral properties of the two diastereoisomers (S,S)-M96 and (S,R)-M96 are additively composed by the partial contributions of the individual chiral centers, determined from the partially racemic configurations. Mixtures of the diastereoisomers exhibit a mole fraction weighted additivity of the chiral properties.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 79-90 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals |
| Volume | 281 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 1996 |
Keywords
- Chirality
- Cholesteric pitch
- Diastereoisomers
- Smectic C*
- Spontaneous polarization