Synthesis of new optically active cyanoc
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Tetsuo Kusumoto; Akiko Nakayama; Ken-ichi Sato; Tamejiro Hiyama; Sadao Takehara;
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Article
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1991
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Elsevier Science
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French
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## Optically acttve 2-alkyl-I-aryl-I-cyanocyclopropanes weye synthesized from 2-aryI-4-hydroxyalkanenitriles which in turn were obtained by the reaction of chiral 1,2epoxyalkanes with the carbanions derived from arylacetonitnles. Ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) have been attracting much atten