Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking in a re-entrant isotropic liquid.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes Str.2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany.

Published: November 2015

An achiral double-swallow tailed tetracatenar compound forms a re-entrant isotropic liquid between a bicontinuous cubic phase and a nematic liquid crystalline phase. This isotropic liquid was found to represent a conglomerate of two immiscible chiral liquids. The chirality is retained and eventually becomes uniform at the transition to the cubic I432 phase.

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