Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.276, 193-201, 1996
Bilayered Super-Structures of Antiferroelectric Mesogens
Crystal structures of two antiferroelectric mesogens, TFMHPBC and MHPBC-10, were analysed by an X-ray diffraction method. In both crystals, mesogen molecules formed a herringbone structure which was essentially the same as that proposed for the antiferroelectric liquid crystal phase. Because of the crystallographic 2(1)-symmetry along the b-axis, only the b-axis component of the dipole moment remains in a smectic layer. Since the dipole moment in the next layer has the same magnitude but the opposite direction, both crystals show no dipole moment as a whole. These structural features observed in their crystal states seem to be conserved in their antiferroelectric liquid crystal phases which are just above their crystal phases.
Keywords:MHPOBC