A new high temperature mesophase of a double-swallow-tailed compound with weak optical anisotropy

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Abstract
A new six-ring double-swallow-tailed compound is presented which shows four liquid crystalline phases. In addition to a smectic C phase and two columnar phases (oblique and hexagonal), a high temperature mesophase was observed which exhibits a very weak birefringence and which shows unusual optical textures.