The Origin of the Helical Twist Inversion in Single Component Cholesteric Liquid Crystals*
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The cholesteric twist inversion by temperature variation of a single component thermotropic liquid crystalline system was experimentally investigated and is explained by the partial twisting power model, evaluating the temperature dependent pitch of five different configurations of a benzoic acid biphenyl ester with two chiral centers. The temperature dependence of the twisting power and the cholesteric pitch for several stereoisomeric compounds can in first approximation be predicted by the partial twisting powers of the individual chiral centers determined from the partially racemic configurations.
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