Novel hockey‐stick mesogens with the nematic, synclinic and anticlinic smectic C phase sequence

New hockey‐stick mesogens have been synthesised and their mesomorphic properties studied. The molecular structure consists of a laterally substituted central naphthalene unit prolonged by two non‐symmetrical arms, both of which contain ester units of identical orientation. The shorter arm possesses only one and the longer arm three benzene rings. Nematic, synclinic smectic C and anticlinic smectic C phases were identified and their physical properties studied. No banana‐type ordering producing dipolar phases has been found.