To obtain novel boron liquid crystals, we successfully combined MIDA boronates with chromophoric fluorene and fluorenone mesogenic units and studied the influence of alkoxy versus alkyl side chains by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarising optical microscopy (POM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The fluorenes showed broader temperature ranges of the SmA phase compared to their fluorenone counterparts. By replacing the alkoxy side chains with alkyl side chains, the mesophase ranges could be significantly enlarged and the thermal stability increased.
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