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Long- And Short-Range Order in the Mesophases of Laterally Substituted Calamitic Mesogens and Their Radial Octapodes

Long- And Short-Range Order in the Mesophases of Laterally Substituted Calamitic Mesogens and Their Radial Octapodes

Panagiota K Karahaliou, Paul H J Kouwer, Thomas Meyer, Georg H Mehl, Demetri J Photinos

J Phys Chem B. 2008 May 29;112(21):6550-6.

PMID: 18457439

Abstract:

The mesomorphic behavior of a calamitic mesogen (4'-undecyloxybiphenyl-4-yl-4-octyloxy-2-(pent-4-en-1-yloxy)benzoate) and of a supermesogenic octapode formed by the side-on attachment of the mesogen to a octasilsesquioxane central core is studied by X-ray diffraction and polarizing optical microscopy. The calamitic compound is found to have a nematic phase that has biaxial domains (cybotactic clusters) of tilted layers throughout its entire temperature range. Domains of analogous structure are also found in both the nematic and the hexagonal columnar mesophases exhibited by the obctapode compound. The spacing of the layers forming the domains is found to have the same, essentially temperature independent value for the calamitic monomer and for the octapode, in both its mesophases. Comparison with compounds of analogous structure shows that this value is determined by the length of the rigid part of the mesogenic unit. Variation of the latter length is shown to have no effect on the size of the hexagonal lattice of the octapode columnar phase or on the stacking distance within the columns. The presence of the biaxial domains in the nematic phase is discussed in connection with the phase biaxiality that has been observed in structurally related tetrapode compounds and the possibility of field induced macroscopic biaxial nematic order.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP50649564	4-Pentylphenyl 4-(octyloxy)benzoate		50649-56-4	Price

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