The first series of polymeric liquid crystals with a cholesteric phase has been prepared by copolymerization of the methacrylic esters (1) and (2). Pure poly-(1) forms a nematic phase; the cholesteric structure is induced by the chiral species (2).—Pure poly-(2) is not liquid crystalline.
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