Potassium Hydroxide → (S)-5-(8-methyldecyloxy)-2-(4-octyloxyphenyl)pyrimidine

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KOH (0.8 g) was added to a solution of 5-hydroxy-2-(4-octyloxyphenyl)pyrimidine (4 g) dissolved in ethanol (20 ml), followed by adding (S)-8-methyldecyl bromide (3.2 g) prepared according to the method disclosed in the literature (Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1984, Vol. 114, pp. 237-247), keeping the mixture under reflux for 6 hours, allowing the resulting material to cool down, extracting it with toluene, washing the resulting organic layer with 2N-NaOH aqueous solution, further washing with water until the washing water became neutral, distilling off low-boiling components in the organic layer and recrystallizing the residue from ethanol to obtain the captioned compound, (S)-5-(8-methyldecyloxy)-2-(4-octyloxyphenyl)pyrimidine (1.8 g). Its phase transition points were as follows: ##STR12##

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