New Liquid Crystalline Tolanes from (-)-Menthone
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Synthetic manipulations were carried out with the aim of obtaining an advanced linear fragment for production of thermotropic liquid crystals. The chiral fragment synthesised was introduced in a tolanbenzoate mesogenic core by coupling of Sonogashira. The nal chiral tolans showed smectic A and C and nematic liquid crystalline phases. The crystallographic structure of lactone from (-) menthone is presented.
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