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Sugar‐Coated Discotic Liquid Crystals
Author(s) -
Barberá J.,
Garcés A. C.,
Jayaraman N.,
Omenat A.,
Serrano J. L.,
Stoddart J. F.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/1521-4095(200102)13:3<175::aid-adma175>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - thermotropic crystal , triphenylene , discotic liquid crystal , materials science , liquid crystal , sugar , molecule , amphiphile , columnar phase , crystallography , organic chemistry , liquid crystalline , optoelectronics , polymer , chemistry , composite material , copolymer
The constitutional marriage between a classical thermotropic discotic molecule and carbohydrate‐based amphiphiles (e.g., see Figure) is shown to result in hybrid compounds, where, for example, a triphenylene unit serves as the central core from which oligomethyleneoxy chains terminated with sugar residues radiate, which have interesting liquid crystal properties.