A synthetic strategy toward branched oligomesogenic phosphonic acids: comparison of alternative pathways

This work is devoted to the elaboration of a practical scheme for the synthesis of dendritic derivatives of gallic acid containing a carboxylate-ω-alkylphosphonic acid group and three terminal promesogenic substituents. Two synthetic strategies toward the target compounds were examined that differ in the sequence of the introduction of the promesogenic units and ω-alkylphosphonic group.