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The cyclohex-2-en-1-one unit flanked by one or more aryl rings is show
n to provide a new system which can exhibit liquid crystal properties;
these new mesogens contain a chiral centre which is both adjacent to
a lateral dipolar carbonyl group and is also located in the central co
re.