Vv. Belyaev et Ab. Kuznetsov, DEPENDENCE OF THE REFRACTIVE-INDEXES OF 4-ALKYL-4'-ALKOXYTOLANS ON THEIR MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE, Soviet journal of optical technology, 60(7), 1993, pp. 456-459
This paper describes a method for determining the refractive indices o
f nematic liquid crystals with positive dielectric anisotropy with an
accuracy of 2%. The results of a measurement of the refractive indices
n(e), n(o), and DELTAn for tolan derivatives are presented. The refra
ctive indices are shown to be functions of the orientation of the subs
tituents in flexible chains.