THE SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE BEHAVIOR IN MONOSACCHARIDE AMPHIPHILES - COMPARISON OF THE THERMAL-BEHAVIOR OF SEVERAL HOMOLOGOUS SERIES OF D-GLUCOSE DERIVED COMPOUNDS WITH AN AMINO-LINKED ALKYL CHAIN

A short review of the scope and limitations of liquid-crystalline behaviour in carbohydrate derivatives is presented. In order to investigate the influence of structure variations on the thermal behaviour of monosaccharide amphiphiles, six homologous series of D-glucose and 2-deoxy-D-glucose derivatives with an aminolinked n-alkyl chain were prepared. The observed thermal behaviour could be readily explained with the aid of a refinement of the qualitative model that was presented earlier [1]. All compounds were found to be mesogenic, and the observed mesophase was smectic Ad (i.e. a partially overlapping bilayer structure) in all cases. © 1990 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.