Meili Duan, H. Okamoto, V. F. Petrov
Jul 1, 1999
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Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
Abstract
This paper describes the thermal properties of some homologs of 4- and 3-[2-(perfluoroalkyl)ethoxy]-substituted nitrobenzenes and benzonitriles. Many of the homologs show notable smectic properties involving smectic A and B phases. The smectic structures were characterized by an X-ray diffraction examination. The smectic A phase has a partially interdigitated bilayer arrangement where the layer spacing is 1.2—1.8 times the calculated molecular length. Interestingly, some homologs show a smectic B phase with a layer spacing of 2 times the calculated molecular length. Both fluorophilic and polar interactions are supposed to play important roles for the molecular arrangements.