Cyclic ureas as novel building blocks for bent-core liquid crystals.
Cyclic ureas represent a new class of bent-core liquid crystals which, depending on the ring size and other structural parameters, can form a series of polar (ferroelectric and antiferroelectric), as well as non-polar, tilted and non-tilted smectic and undulated smectic phases.
Glettner
Benjamin
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Institute of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany.
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Sara
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Reddy
R Amaranatha
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Baumeister
Ute
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Tschierske
Carsten
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