In: Macromolecules, 1998, vol. 31, no. 17, p. 5647–5654
The synthesis, purification, characterization, and liquid-crystalline properties of side-chain polysiloxanes bearing mesomorphic 1,1‘- or 1,3-disubstituted ferrocene units are reported. The polymers were prepared by grafting the appropriate vinyl-containing ferrocene monomer onto commercially available poly(hydrosiloxane)s following a standard procedure. The monomers gave smectic A or smectic A...
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In: Helvetica Chimica Acta, 1998, vol. 81, no. 11, p. 2072-2077
The synthesis and liquid-crystalline properties of tetracatenar covalent and H-bonded bis-ferrocene derivatives 1 and 2, respectively, are reported. Both compounds gave rise to enantiotropic columnar liquid-crystalline behavior with a hexagonal molecular organization. To explore the possibility to obtain also calamitic liquid-crystalline phases from H-bonded ferrocene-containing liquid crystals,...
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