LiqCryst

LiqCryst is a MS-Windows-based application that allows easy access to a unique database of structures and properties of liquid crystalline compounds. The LiqCryst database contains information about currently known thermotropic liquid crystalline compounds. Structures and associated data for about 110,100 compounds have been collected from about 125,000 references. LiqCryst provides all available physical data and also allows graphical statistical analysis - e.g. of the change of phase transition temperatures in homologous series - and predictions of transition temperatures depending on structure.

The program is a newly developed object oriented database engine, based on the SciDex technology, which allows quick searches to be made for substructures, properties, similarities, chemical elements, phase sequences, transition temperatures, physical measurements and references. The retrieved compound information is displayed in tables. Trends or irregularities in homologous series can be visualized graphically.