58743-76-3Relevant articles and documents
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Gray,G.W.,Mosley,A.
, p. 97 - 102 (1976)
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SYNTHESIS OF 4-ALKYL-4'-CYANOBIPHENYLS
Ruolene, Yu. I.,Adomenas, P. V.,Sirutkaitis, R. A.,Denis, G. I.
, p. 1187 - 1191 (2007/10/02)
Liquid crystals of the 4-alkyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl group were synthesized without the use of copper cyanide. 4-Alkyl-4'-formylbiphenyls and the 4-formyloximes of 4'-alkylbiphenyl, which possess a liquid-crystalline state, were isolated.Beginning with the pentyl homolog, they form an enantiotropic nematic phase, and beginning with octyl homolog they also form a smectic meso phase.