Helical Polyacetylenes Synthesized in Helical Sense and Pitch Controllable Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal with Unprecedented Temperature Dependence
Helical Polyacetylenes Synthesized in Helical Sense and Pitch Controllable Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal with Unprecedented Temperature Dependence
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DOI:
10.1021/ma0703655
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发表时间:
2007-06
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
M. Goh;T. Matsushita;M. Kyotani;K. Akagi
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作者:
M. Goh;T. Matsushita;M. Kyotani;K. Akagi
We have synthesized two types of novel chiral compounds, D-1 and D-2−D-5, where D-1 is an asymmetric center-containing chiral compound of (S)-configuration, and D-2−D-5 are so-called double chiral compounds consisting of axially chiral binaphthyl moiety of (S)-configuration and asymmetric center moieties of (S)-, (S)-, (R)- and racemic configuration, linked with methylene spacers of 6, 12, 12 and 12, respectively. These chiral compounds were adopted as chiral dopants to induce chiral nematic liquid crystals (N*-LCs). The N*-LC including the double chiral dopant D-3, abbreviated as N*-LC with D-3 (system 2), showed an extraordinary increase in helical pitch (decrease in helical twisting power) in polarizing optical microscope (POM) when the temperature increased from 0 to 30 °C. This is due to a substantial cancellation in twisting power between the double chiral moieties having opposite screw directions, although both of them have the same (S)-configuration. Meanwhile, the N*-LC including the two types of...