Phase change enthalpies and entropies of liquid crystals

The thermochemical behavior of more than 3000 organic compounds known to form liquid crystals is reported along with references to the original literature. A group additivity approach used to estimate total phase change entropies of organic molecules applied to 627 of these liquid crystals is found to significantly overestimate their total phase change entropies. Comparison of experimental and estimated values also show significant scatter relative to database compounds. The origins of these discrepancies are discussed in terms of a model used to explain liquid crystal formation.(c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.