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A series of new optically active compounds, (S) -1-alkoxy-2-propanols, has been designed and synthesized from ethy1 (S)-lactate as chiral building blocks for the preparation of chiral materials. Thus, two series of the derivatives, 4-[(S)-1-alkoxy-2-propoxycarbonyl] pheny1-4'-octoxybipheny1-4-carboxylate (nAPCPOBPC;n = 2-6) of the series I and 4-[(S)-1-alkoxy-2-propoxycarbony1] bipheny1-4'-octoxypheny1-4-carboxylate (nAPCBPOPC; n = 3-6) of the series Ⅱhave been prepared for the investigation of liquid crystalline properties as a function of the alkyloxy chain length near to the asymmetric carbon. The transition temperatures of the mesophases for series Ⅰand Ⅱ were determined by DSC in conjunction with optical microscopy. The mesophase identification was carried out principally by polarized optically microscopy. For the series Ⅰ, nAPCPOBPC with n = 3 and 4 showed the banded focal-conic fan texture of the chiral smectic C phase and smectic A phase, whereas nAPCPOBPC with n = 5 exhibited only smectic A phase and nAPCPOBPC with n = 2 and 6 showed no liquid crytalline properties. On the other hand, nAPCBPOPC of the series Ⅱshowed no chiral smectic C phase for each member except for the n = 4 derivative. nAPCPOBPC (n=3 and n=4) show the temperature range of the chiral smectic C phase around 50 C, whereas nAPCBPOPC (n=4) of the series Ⅱshowed only 8℃. The value of Ps were determined by Automated Polarization Tested in an a.c. field of the frequency 100 Hz. For nAPCPOBPC (n=3) a value of 4.8 nc/cm2 was obtained.For the compound nAPCPOBPC(n=4) values up to 20.3 nc/cm2 and for the compound nAPCBPOPC (n=4) down to 0.4 nc/cm2 are observed. Ferroelectric side-chain liquid crystalline polymer, PO11-2-1 with Mn = 32000 and Mw/Mn =1.35 was prepared by platinum catalyzed hydrosilation graft reactions between poly(1-methy1-1-silabutane) and 4-[(R)-1-butoxy-2-propoxy]pheny1-4'-(undec-10-enyloxy)bipheny1-4-carboxylate, MO11-2-1. The phase sequence and transition temperature of the monomer as determined using DSC and POM were gived below: The phase sequence and transition temperature of the monomer and polymer as determined using DSC (1st cooling) POM were given below:MO11-2-1, K 11.09 SmC* 66.38 SmA 128.64 I; PO11-2-1, Tg 25 SmC* 135.23 I. Structure of the nAPCPOBPC, nAPCBPOPC, monomer, MO11-2-1 and polymer, PO11-2-1 were determined by 1HNMR, 13CNMR and Mass spectroscopic investigations.
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