A liquid crystal dimer is composed of molecules containing two conventional mesogenic
groups linked via a flexible spacer. These materials show quite different behaviour to …

Since their discovery earlier this century, phthalocyanines have been of great interest to
chemists, physicists and industrial scientists. They remain one of the most studied functional …

Fundamentally important as models for the study of energy and charge migration in self-
organized systems, discotic liquid crystals find functional application as one-dimensional …

Ever since the serendipitous discovery of liquid crystals (LC) by Friedrich Reinitzer in 1888,
a significant number of LCs have been synthesised and characterised. The ever-growing …

A series of disc-shaped molecules were prepared by the condensation of 1, 2-diamines with
2, 3, 6, 7-tetrakis (hexyloxy) phenanthrene-9, 10-dione to investigate the relationship …

Liquid crystals and electroluminescent organic materials have a wide commercial
application in flat panel displays, in products such as clocks, navigational aids and laptop …

Discotic liquid crystalline polymers bearing alkoxy-substituted triphenylene moieties in the
side-chain were synthesized by ring-opening metathesis polymerization using a well …

In an attempt to prepare chiral discotic liquid crystals based on a helically twisted
triphenylene nucleus a route has been developed for the introduction of α-fluoro,-chloro and …

The single-crystal X-ray structure of 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11-hexaethoxy-1-nitrotriphenylene
confirms earlier calculations of the molecular geometry and shows that the α-nitro …

A new variety of non-symmetrical triphenylene-based discogens has been synthesized by
intramolecular Scholl cyclodehydrogenation reaction of kinked terphenylenes using the …