Synthesis, Thermodynamic Properties, and Gas- Liquid Chromatographic Evaluation of a High-Melting Liquid Crystal Series

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The synthesis, phase transition temperatures and thermodynamic data (enthalpies and entropies) are reported for the methoxy through n-octyloxy (and n-decyloxy) homologues of the liquid crystal series represented by N,N′-bis[p-alkoxybenylidene]-α, aα′-bi-p-toluidine. The trends in transition temperatures are more or less analogous to previously-studied liquid crystal series. Nematic-isotropic enthalpy values are appreciably higher than average values for other series. Entropy values show the usual odd-even effect, but in contrast to observed trend for other series, they decrease with increasing terminal substituent chain length. Di-Schiff' s bases with various terminal substituents that showed interesting linear correlation between nematicisotropic transition temperatures and the anisotropy of polarizability of the substituent were also synthesized. A simple gas-liquid chromatographic method for the investigation of the selectivity of nematic stationary phases and its dependence on the degree of molecular order in the nematic state is also presented.

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