ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of New Optically Active Cyanocyclopropanes as Chiral Dopants for Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

Authors :: Ken-ichi Sato
Sadao Takehara
Tamejiro Hiyama
Nakamura Kayoko
Takeshi Kuriyama
Masashi Osawa
Tetsuo Kusumoto
Nakayama Akiko
Tadao Shoji
Toru Fujisawa
Source :: ChemInform. 22
Publication Year :: 2010
Publisher :: Wiley, 2010.
Abstract: Optically active 2-alkyl-1-aryl-1-cyanocyclopropanes were synthesized from 2-aryl-4-hydroxyalkanenitriles which in turn were obtained by the reaction of chiral 1,2-epoxyalkanes with the carbanions derived from arylacetonitriles.

Subjects :: Turn (biochemistry)
Crystallography
Dopant
Liquid crystal
Chemistry
General Medicine
Optically active
Ferroelectricity
Carbanion

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