Fluorine-containing chiral smectic liquid crystals
AssigneeMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
InventorEugene P. Janulis
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Abstract
Compounds are provided which comprise a fluorocarbon terminal portion and a chiral hydrocarbon terminal portion, said terminal portions being connected by a central core, said compounds having tilted smectic mesophases or having latent tilted smectic mesophases which develop when said compounds having said latent mesophases are in admixture with said compounds having tilted smectic mesophases or said compounds having latent tilted smectic mesophases.
Claims2
A compound represented by the formula ##STR90## where J is --COOH or --CHO, y is 1 to 20, and Z is 1 to 20.
The compound 6-(1,1-dihydroprfluorobutyloxy)-3-pyridinecarboxylic acid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.