Abstract
Binary systems consisting of 2,5-diphenyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives incorporating an allene unit in one of the terminal chains and the electron acceptor 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenone (TNF) have been investigated. Though the diphenylthiadiazole cores do not represent typical electron donor units, the nematic and smectic C phases observed for the pure compounds were suppressed and replaced by smectic A phases which in most cases have a higher stability than the nematic phases of the pure compounds. The substitution pattern around the allene moiety allowed a systematic study of the influence of steric effects on the mesophase induction by TNF. Compounds with long and especially those with branched terminal chains can take up a larger number of TNF molecules and can reach a higher stability of the induced SmA phase than those with shorter and unbranched chains. The induction of SmA phases is explained as the result of attractive intermolecular interaction between the diphenylthiadiazole rigid cores and TNF molecules provided by donor-acceptor interactions and quadrupole interactions, as well as a consequence of microsegregation and space filling effects.
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