The synthesis of alkoxybromotriphenylenes: new discotic liquid crystals and valuable precursors to ‘mixed tail’ discotics
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 10,p. 1059-1060
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39950001059
Abstract
The phenolic moieties of hydroxyalkoxytriphenylenes are derivatized and reduced to yield alkoxytriphenylenes possessing reactive sites for aromatic substitution; simple bromination affords the first triphenylene discotic liquid crystal having only three alkoxy tails.Keywords
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