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A new six-ring double-swallow-tailed compound is presented which shows four liquid crystalline phases. In addition to a smectic C phase and two columnar phases (oblique and hexagonal), a high temperature mesophase was observed which exhibits a very weak birefringence and which shows unusual optical textures.
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Weißflog et al. (1996) studied this question.
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