ABSTRACT A convenient synthetic route based on a sodium-mediated aromatic cross-
coupling reaction is described for the multi-gram preparation of the ω-bromo-1-(4 …

Plastic waste has become a major environmental crisis, with the majority of plastic being
produced ending up in open landfills and waterways every year. Solvent-based recycling …

Calamitic molecules consisting of pentabromophenol tethered to cyanobiphenyl via a
flexible alkyl chain were synthesised and characterised for their mesomorphic properties …

Nematic liquid crystals are promising materials for microwave communication owing to their
continuous tunability as dielectrics and wide frequency range selection. However …

ABSTRACT A series of cyanobiphenyl (CB) and cyano-p-terphenyl (CT) derivatives
containing a variety of highly fluorinated aryloxyl termini and different connecting bridges …

A series of triphenylene-based discotic liquid crystals (DLCs) modified by fluorination or
chlorination at the end of peripheral flexible chains were examined in this work. DLC …

Liquid crystal properties of compounds with a variety of polar terminal groups including
cyano, fluoro, isothiocyanato, etc., were studied well, however, not enough attention was …

Liquid crystal (LC) phases must exist in an appropriate temperature range for practical
applications and thus the melting point (MP) is a critical design target of LCs. In this work, we …

Selective fluorination is a well-established technique to tailor and improve many of the
physical properties of liquid crystals. Cyanobiphenyls are among the best-known and …

Three homologous series hydroxyl, acrylate and vinyl-ether terminated cyanobiphenyl
compounds have been synthesised, termed as nOCB-OH, nOCB-AE and nOCB-VE (n= 2 …