• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.583-588
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• 1991

A series of dimesogenic compounds having two identical, terminal Schiff base type mesogens and a central polymethylene spacer were prepared and their properties were compared with those of the corresponding monomesogenic compounds. The mesomorphic properties of the compounds were studied by differential scanning calorimetry and on a hot-stage of a polarizing microscope. All of the dimesogenic compounds formed mesophases enantiotropically with the exception of pentamethylene-1,5-bis(4-oxybenzylidene 4-n-butylaniline). This compound was monotropic and formed only a nematic phase on heating the solid, whereas it formed nematic as well as smectic A phases on cooling the isotropic liquid. Those compounds containing longer (octamethylene and decamethylene) spacers favored the formation of nematic phase whereas those having shorter (dimethylene and tetramethylene) spacers formed smectic phases. In general, the variety of mesophase forms exhibited by the dimesogenic compounds was significantly less than that shown by the corresponding monomesogenic compounds.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.263-268
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• 2006

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.189-193
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• 1991

A series of compounds that contain varying numbers of the same mesogenic structure, biphenyl p-oxybenzoate unit, attached through a pentamethylene spacer to the central benzene ring were prepared and their liquid crystallinity was studied. The mesophase-forming ability of a dimesogenic compound was found to be greatly dependent on whether or not its geometric shape is linear and also on the existence of the pentamethylene spacer between the mesogen and the central core. The presence of the spacer enhanced the capacity of a compound to form a mesophase. In the trimesogenic compound the mesogens were linked to the 1,3,5-positions of the core benzene ring through the spacer. The compound was found to be enantiotropically nematic.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.333-339
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• 1990

A series of new dimesogenic compounds whose mesogens are of aromatic ester or amide type having a trifluoromethyl $(CF_3)$ substituent at the para-position of each terminal phenolic rings were prepared and their liquid crystalline properties were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and on a cross-polarizing microscope. The compounds have two identical mesogenic units bracketing a central decamethylene spacer. Trifluoromethyl group appears to favor the formation of smectic phases when it is attached to a phenoxy or anilide terminal. Its group efficiency for mesophase formation seems to be inferior to other common substituents. A thermodynamic analysis of the phase transitions was made and the results were explained in relation to the structures of the compounds.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.353-357
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• 1986

Mutual miscibility between thermotropic, nematic compounds with two terminal mesogenic units and a central spacer was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and on a polarizing microscope. It was found that the isomorphous, nematic dimesogenic compounds with wide variety of structures are miscible in mesophases with each other over the whole range of composition and that Schroder-van Laar equation almost correctly predicts the melting temperature and composition of eutectic mixtures. There was a pair of compounds which were exceptional and did not form a eutectic mixture and, instead, revealed a monotonous change in melting (T$_{m}$) and isotropic transition temperatures (T$_{i}$) as the composition of the mixture was varied. The compounds were of almost same structure in shape and seemed to undergo formation of solid solution.

• 공업화학
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.280-286
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• 2015

유연격자로서 분자 중앙에 부틸렌 또는 펜타메틸렌기를 갖는 두 시리즈의 비대칭 이메소젠 화합물을 합성하고, 이들의 열적성질 및 액정성을 연구하였다. 합성된 화합물의 메소젠기는 콜레스테릴기와 곁 치환기를 포함하고 있는 아조벤젠기로 되어 있으며, 이들 액정화합물의 화학구조와 액정성은 FT-IR, $^1H$-NMR, 시차주사열량분석기(DSC), 편광현미경(POM)에 의하여 조사되었다. 화합물 $D5-OCH_3$를 제외한, 합성된 모든 화합물들은 양방성 액정성을 나타내었고, 유연격자의 탄소수가 짝수인 경우 넓은 액정상 온도구간과 높은 등방성 전이온도를 나타내었다. 곁 치환기가 액정성에 미치는 영향으로, 부피가 큰 치환기를 갖는 화합물들은 좁은 액정상 온도구간과 낮은 등방성 전이온도를 나타내었으며, 극성 치환기를 갖는 화합물들은 스멕틱 액정상의 높은 안정성을 나타내었다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.659-664
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• 2010

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.110-117
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• 2000

A series of new liquid crystalline dimesogenic compounds with chiral tails was synthesized, and their thermal and liquid crystalline properties were studied. The chain length of the central polymethylene spacers (x) was varied from dimethylene (2) to decamethylene (12). These compounds were characterized by elemental analysis, IR and NMR spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and cross-polarizing microscopy. All compounds were found to be enantiotropically liquid crystalline, and the values of melting ($T_m$) and isotropization temperature ($T_i$) as well as enthalpy change (Δ$H_i$) and entropy change for isotropization (Δ$S_i$) decreased in a zig-zag fashion revealing the so-called odd-even effect as x increases. Their mesomorphic properties fall into three categories depending upon x; (a) compounds with x=2 and 4 formed two different mesophases, smectic and cholesteric phases in that order on heating, and vice versa on cooling, (b) compounds with x=3, 7, 8, 10 and 11 reversibly formed only the cholesteric phase, and (c) compounds with x=5, 6, 9 and 12 exhibited only a cholesteric phase on heating, whereas on cooling they formed two different mesophases, cholesteric and smectic phases, sequentially.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.1634-1636
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• 2009

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.245-248
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• 1990

A series of compounds were synthesized that contain varying number of mesogenic units, 4-n-butylazobenzene moiety, attached to the central benzene ring through ester bond. These compounds were subjected to thermal analysis on a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and also on a polarizing microscope. It was found from this study that the presence of mesogenic units in a multi-mesogenic compound does not guarantee for the compound to become mesomorphic and that the linear molecular shape is conducive to form a liquid crystalline phase.