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Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.632, No.1, 114-123, 2016
Bifurcated-tail chiral fluorinated organosiloxane liquid crystalline materials
The synthesis and characterization of a series of chiral fluorinated low molar mass (bifurcated tail) organosiloxane materials is presented. The mesogenic moiety is similar to that in the TSiKN65F mesogen reported by Naciri etal., which displays a de Vries-type S-A(*) phase. The one parameter varied across the series reported herein is the length of the alkyl chain linking the mesogen moiety to the bifurcated siloxane tail.