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Synthesis of a hexaalkoxybenzo[b]triphenylene mesogen
Kevin Lau1, Johan Foster, Vance Williams
1Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 19, 2003
Abstract:
The synthesis of the first mesogenic hexaalkoxybenzo[b]triphenylene derivative is reported; this compound exhibits a broad columnar liquid crystal phase at temperatures only slightly above room temperature.