A new chiral calamitic compound consisting of a phenyl core that is connected through ester linkers to benzoate carrying (S)-2-methylbutoxy group at one side and biphenyl carboxylate with an undecenyloxy chain other has been synthesized. Additionally, the siloxane substituted derivatives dimer these two identical calamitics linked by disiloxane spacer have obtained via hydrosilylation reaction ...

2014 We describe the structure of the mesophase of a conducting charge transfer complex formed by a donor substituted by four long paraffinic chains and TCNQ as acceptor. In the mesophase the donor cores remain in stacks with a short core-to-core distance (3.6 A). The presence of paraffinic chains favours a layer structure, the stacks being localized in the lamellae and TCNQ likely filling the ...