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  1. Temperature-induced helix inversion in naphthyl-based cholesteric liquid crystals

    Article • Materials Chemistry Frontiers, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  2. Bent-shaped dimers with chiral spacer – unravelling the potential of the naphthyl mesogenic unit

    Article • Liquid Crystals, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  3. The Interplay of Spacer Chirality and Parity in Mesogenic Dimers

    Article • ChemPhysChem, March 2024, Wiley

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  4. Chiral cyanobiphenyl dimers – significance of the linking group for mesomorphic properties and helical induction

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  5. Temperature Dependence of the Electroclinic Effect in the Twist-Bend Nematic Phase

    Article • Crystals, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  6. Enantioselective Synthesis of 3-Aryl-3-hydroxypropanoic Esters as Subunits for Chiral Liquid Crystals

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, October 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  7. Nematic-like elastic coefficients of the SmAb phase

    Article • Liquid Crystals, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  8. Fréedericksz-Like Transition in a Biaxial Smectic- A Phase

    Article • Physical Review X, July 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  9. Fluorinated twist-bend nematogens: the role of intermolecular interaction

    Article • Liquid Crystals, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  10. Synthesis and Mesomorphic Properties of Novel Bent-shaped Naphthyl Diketones

    Article • Croatica Chemica Acta, January 2019, Croatian Chemical Society

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  11. Induced smectic phase in binary mixtures of twist-bend nematogens

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, April 2018, Beilstein Institut

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  12. Geometric aspects influencing N-NTB transition - implication of intramolecular torsion

    Article • Liquid Crystals, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Trpimir Ivšić, Dr Andreja Lesac

  13. Electric-field effects in the twist-bend nematic phase

    Article • February 2018, SPIE

    Dr Andreja Lesac, Dr Ivan Dozov

  14. Fine-tuning the effect of π–π interactions on the stability of the NTBphase

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  15. Sensitivity of the NTBphase formation to the molecular structure of imino-linked dimers

    Article • Liquid Crystals, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreja Lesac, Dr Trpimir Ivšić

  16. Towards understanding the NTB phase: a combined experimental, computational and spectroscopic study

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Andreja Lesac, Dr Trpimir Ivšić

  17. Retraction: Milestone in the NTBphase investigation and beyond: direct insight into molecular self-assembly

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Andreja Lesac, Dr Trpimir Ivšić

  18. Retracted Article: Milestone in the NTBphase investigation and beyond: direct insight into molecular self-assembly

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Andreja Lesac, Dr Trpimir Ivšić

  19. Effects of Geometry and Electronic Structure on the Molecular Self-Assembly of Naphthyl-Based Dimers

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Trpimir Ivšić, Dr Andreja Lesac

  20. Controlled self-assembly of chiral gelator molecules into aligned fibers induced by nematic to smectic B phase transitions

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, August 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  21. Polycatenar bows with single carbon atom elbow

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bertrand Donnio, Dr Andreja Lesac

  22. NMR and HPLC study of chiral selectors with naphthyl unit

    Article • Structural Chemistry, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  23. Intercalated liquid-crystalline phases formed by symmetric dimers with an α,ω-diiminoalkylene spacer

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  24. Dimeric Salicylaldimine-Based Mesogens with Flexible Spacers:  Parity-Dependent Mesomorphism

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, April 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  25. Bent‐core mesogens based on semi‐flexible dicyclohexylmethane spacers

    Article • Liquid Crystals, February 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  26. The enantiomeric recognition of dihydropyrimidonic compounds by chiral selectors derived from 4- or 2-chloro-3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid

    Article • Tetrahedron Asymmetry, March 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  27. Efficient Synthesis of Chiral Amides of 2-(2′-Carboxyphenyl)-4-hydroxy­quinoline

    Article • Synthesis, January 2002, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  28. (−)-Isocamphoric Acid Building Block for Chiral Liquid Crystals

    Article • Helvetica Chimica Acta, October 1999, Wiley

    Professor Duncan Bruce, Dr Andreja Lesac

  29. Chiroptical and conformational properties of (R)-1-phenylethylamine derivatives of persubstituted benzene

    Article • Tetrahedron Asymmetry, May 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  30. First example of the solvent effect on absolute conformation of chiral 3,3-disubstituted 1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ones

    Article • Tetrahedron, January 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  31. Conformational study of α-arylethylamides of (−)-camphanic acid

    Article • Tetrahedron Asymmetry, June 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  32. Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of naphth-2-yl 2-pyridylmethyl ketones and their copper (II) complexes

    Article • Liquid Crystals, September 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  33. Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of novel phenacylpyridines and their copper (II) complexes

    Article • Liquid Crystals, February 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  34. Synthesis and structures of pyridinologous linear tri- and tetrapyrrole metal complexes

    Article • Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly, August 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  35. On the chemistry of pyrrole pigments, XCI: Copper complexes of pyridinologous linear tri- and tetra-pyrroles as cyclopropanation catalysts

    Article • Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly, March 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andreja Lesac

  36. On the chemistry of pyrrole pigments, XC: Pyridinologous linear tri- and tetrapyrroles

    Article • Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly, August 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andreja Lesac