Abstract

A number of liquid crystalline polyesters having a rigid T-shaped mesogenic fragment and differing in dipole architecture were synthesized and examined by polarizing optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and IR and 1H NMR spectroscopy. The thermal stability of the mesophase in the given series of compounds was shown to increase with extension of arms in the T-shaped mesogenic fragment, as well as on replacement of the terminal ester groups (COOAlk) therein by ether moieties (OAlk). Such replacement also enhances smectogenic properties.

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