Abstract
ABSTRACTDevelopment of new liquid crystalline materials exhibiting interesting properties and phases continues to be an enabling enterprise in the forward march of their successful display and non-display applications. The design and synthesis of a homologous series of liquid crystalline bent-core compounds derived from the oxadiazole bisaniline moiety and the phase behavior of three members of the series that exhibit nematic, smectic C, and dark conglomerate phases is reported. The liquid crystalline phases exhibited by these mesogens are characterized using polarized optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and x-ray scattering techniques. All three homologs prepared exhibit the nematic phase. Interestingly, the homolog with short hexyl terminal chains exhibits only the nematic phase that is stable over a very broad, nearly 100 K wide, temperature range. The compound with terminal octyl chains shows the chiral dark conglomerate phase below the nematic phase despite the bent molecules being achiral. The homolog with dodecyl alkyl chains is found to possess the smectic-C and two additional lamellar phases besides the nematic phase. These compounds enrich the library of achiral bent-core materials capable of exhibiting chiral and nematic phases.
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