Planar chirality: a fascinating symmetry breaking which
leads to ferroelectricity in ferrocenyl liquid crystals
Thierry Chuard,Stephen J. Cowling,Maria Fernandez-Ciurleo,Isabelle Jauslin,John W. Goodby,Robert Deschenaux
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 10/11/2000 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/B005640P
Abstract
We describe the synthesis, characterization and properties of the first optically-active 1,3-unsymmetrically disubstituted ferrocene derivative which is to exhibit smectic C* and smectic A* phases.
