Liquid Crystalline Compounds, ?9[la1. -Amphiphilic and Mesogenic Carbohydrates, V [Ib1. -Amphiphilic Fluoroglucose and Fluoroscyllitol DerivativesIn order to look at the influence of the OH-F substitution in well as the 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-2,3,4,5,6-tetra-O-hexyl-scyllo-inthe cyclic, hydrophilic section (head group) of amphiphilic osit (19). Substitution of an OH group for a fluorine atom in sugars and of scyllitol derivatives on their liquid crystalline amphiphilic derivatives destabilizes the thermotropic mesoproperties for the first time, we synthesized various differently phase as it was to be expected so that either no or only narrowstructured fluoro-D-glucose derivatives [2-O-decyl-a-D-gluco-range mesophases result. Both thermotropic and lyotropic liqpyranosyl fluoride (4), 4-O-tetradecyl-a-~-glucopyranosyl flu-uid crystal phases occur in the series of 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-~oride (5), 6-O-hexadecyl-a-~-glucopyranosyl fluoride (6) 6-glucopyranose acetals 11 which are discussed in detail and deoxy-6-fluoro-2,3-di-O-hexadecyl-~-glucopyranose (9), 2-which are compared with the analogous 2-hydroxy derivatives deoxy-2-fluoro-4,6-O-alkyliden-~-glucopyranosen (11 a-d), 3-12. Only 11 c-d are thermotropic fluoro mesogens. deoxy-3-fluoro-5,6-di-O-tetradecyl-~-glucofuranose (15)] as beeinfluDt die Elektronendichte im Molekiil lokal, was sich bei Kohlenhydraten z. B. auf die Basizitaten und Aciditaten von Nachbargruppen und damit auf intra-und intermolekularen H-Brucken auswirken kann. Die vergleichbare GroDe der Substituenten (F 2.74 A, 0 2.83 A) und ahnliche Bindungslangen (C-F 1.39 A, C-0 1.43 A) bieten hinreichende Voraussetzungen dafiir, daB ein kovalent