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A new six-ring double-swallow-tailed compound is presented which exhibits a re-entrant smectic C phase in the sequence smectic C–oblique columnar-smectic C–nematic. This unusual sequence detected by observation of the optical textures and by X-ray investigations is also confirmed by the phase diagrams with homologous compounds.
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