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Synthesis of liquid crystalline rod-coil dimers based on poly(propylene oxide) coil

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The synthesis and characterization of 4-[poly(propyleneoxy)propyloxy]-4'-bis[4-decyloxycarbonylbiphenyl-4'-biphenylcarboxylate] with poly(propylene oxide) coil of seven (dimer-7), twelve (dimer-12), seventeen (dimer-17), twenty one (dimer-21) are described. Dimer-7 with short length of poly(propylene oxide) coil exhibits successively smectic C, smectic A and nematic mesophases, while dimer-12 and dimer-17 with longer lengths of coils exhibit a bicontinuous cubic mesophase with Ia3d symmetry. Further increasing the length of coil, as in the case of dimer-21, suppresses liquid crystallinity.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Shinchon 134, Seoul 120-749, Korea, , , , , , KR

    Byoung-Ki Cho, Ja-Hyoung Ryu & Myongsoo Lee

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Korea, , , , , , KR

    Wang-Cheol Zin

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Received: 22 February 2000/Revised version: 21 March 2000/Accepted: 29 March 2000

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Cho, BK., Ryu, JH., Zin, WC. et al. Synthesis of liquid crystalline rod-coil dimers based on poly(propylene oxide) coil. Polymer Bulletin 44, 393–400 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002890070089

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