Gas phase molecular modeling of liquid crystals: Electro‐optical anisotropies
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Abstract
Molecular modeling of liquid crystals is important as it provides information without the need for chemical synthesis. The first ever quantitative correlation of semiempirically obtained quantities with electro‐optical parameters measured in 80 bulk liquid crystals is reported here. The Figure shows the calculated relative energy of an LC as a function of two torsion angles. magnified image
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OpenAlex topics: Molecular spectroscopy and chirality · Liquid Crystal Research Advancements · Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
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