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Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 92(5), p. 75149-75159, 2015
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra17100h
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The influence of lateral fluorination and cyanation on the mesomorphism of polycatenar mesogens and the nature of the SmC phase therein
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Antonina I. Smirnova,
Benoît Heinrich,
Bertrand Donnio,
Duncan W. Bruce 
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Abstract
Several series of tetracatenar mesogens having different lateral substituents (–F, –CN, –CF3) on the central ring have been synthesised and their mesomorphism investigated by polarising microscopy, DSC and small-angle X-ray scattering methods.