The electrostatic potential (ESP) and dipole moments of typical oxygen-containing groups in nematic liquid crystals (NLC)
for which the oxygen atom can lie in different position or connected with different groups
have been calculated by the DFT B3LYP/6-31G(d) level theory. When fluorinated groups connected with oxygen atom directly
their impacts on the ESP and dipole moments were analyzed. The connections between these ESP and dipole moments with the viscosity of NLC have been studied. The conclusions here are really helpful for the understanding of the electronic structure-viscosity relationship and for the molecule design of low viscosity NLC compounds.
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State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China,E-mail:arandy@tom.
Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University
Information Engineering Institute, Guangzhou Railway Polytechnic
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University