This critical review begins with a brief, but essential, introduction to the special nature of
liquid crystal materials, their peculiar properties, and their commercial applications, followed …

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 …

This tutorial review surveys the most useful strategies for the synthesis of triphenylenes. It is
aimed at organic chemists in general and, in particular, synthetic chemists interested in the …

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

A series of new hexaalkoxytriphenylenes having 1, 2, or even 3 lateral attached acrylate
moieties as polymerizable groups were synthesized and characterized. The conditions for …

Molybdenum pentachloride combines a strong Lewis acid character with an unusually high
oxidation potential creating a powerful reagent for oxidative transformations. Since the …

Novel conjugated-bridged triphenylene derivatives with electroluminescent properties were
synthesized. A six step synthesis yields the cyanomethyltriphenylene derivatives (7a–7d) …

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

Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling between 3, 4-dialkoxyphenylboronic acids (1a–d) and
2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11-hexabromotriphenylene (2) provided 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11-hexakis [3, 4-bis …

A series of novel triphenylenes has been synthesised by a combination of palladium
catalysed coupling, oxidative cyclisation, bromination and nucleophilic aromatic substitution …