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Two new six-ring double-swallow-tailed mesogens were prepared. The phase behaviours of these compounds were studied by optical methods and by calorimetry. One of them shows the very unusual phase sequence crystalline-smectic C-cubic-isotropic-nematic-isotropic.
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Weißflog et al. (1995) studied this question.
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