Novel banana-discotic hybrid architectures

• Hari Krishna Bisoyi,
• H. T. Srinivasa and
• Sandeep Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 52, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.52

• , liquid crystal oligomers provide and stabilize a variety of fluid phases with fascinating functions and oligomeric approach provides a wide flexibility in the molecular design. The hybridization of above mentioned two varieties of liquid crystals may lead to novel nanostructured materials with

Synthesis of novel photochromic pyrans via palladium- mediated reactions

• Christoph Böttcher,
• Gehad Zeyat,
• Saleh A. Ahmed,
• Elisabeth Irran,
• Thorben Cordes,
• Cord Elsner,
• Wolfgang Zinth and
• Karola Rueck-Braun

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 25, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.25

• the rise of an intense band centered at ~460 nm (Figure 1a/b). The spectral signature of this band allows an assignment to the open forms with a more planar structure due to the sp2-hybridization at the formerly sp3-hybridized carbon carrying the aryl residues. The π-system now extends over a