Cholesteryl nonanoate also called cholesteryl pelargonate 3β-cholest-5-en-3-ol nonaoate or cholest-5-ene-3-β-yl nonanoate is an ester of cholesterol and nonanoic acid. It is a liquid crystal material forming cholesteric liquid crystals with helical structure. It forms spherulite crystals.
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Cholesteryl nonanoate"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
