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Axial Chirality can lead to Chiral Smectic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Author(s) -
Solladié Guy,
Zimmermann Richard G.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198500641
Subject(s) - chirality (physics) , liquid crystal , dihedral angle , asymmetry , liquid crystalline , materials science , molecule , cholesteric liquid crystal , crystallography , optically active , optics , chemistry , organic chemistry , optoelectronics , chiral symmetry , physics , hydrogen bond , quantum mechanics , nambu–jona lasinio model , quark
Optically active liquid crystalline compounds , whose chirality is due to molecular asymmetry—a dihedral angle of 90° between the two parts of the molecule—are existent in the cyclohexylidene ethanones 1 . Such compounds could, e.g., find application as additives to nematic liquid crystals for display devices.