Liquid crystals (LCs) are soft materials that combine the fluidity of disordered liquids and the long-range orientational or positional order of crystalline solids, along one or two directions of space. A search for better stationary phases, including highly selective ones, is an important trend in chromatography development. Among the stationary phases under investigation are LC stationary phases that have been recently generated much interest. A variety of isomeric molecules were separated with high accuracy. Successfully, X-ray scattering is widely used to investigate and characterise the microscopic structure of most LCs. In this paper, a new liquid crystalline material that can be used potentially as stationary phase in gas chromatography was synthesised and characterised by means of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR) spectra, elemental analysis and X-ray diffraction.Keywords: liquid crystalline; Schiff base; nematic; X-ray diffraction; gas chromatography Introduction Liquid crystals (LCs) or mesophases are intermediate states of condensed matter; they combine long-range positional or orientational order along some directions of space (like in a crystal) and liquid-like disorder along other directions [1]. The most commonly obtained liquid crystalline phases are those with organic molecules or in solutions of surfactants.Presently, LCs can be divided into two categories: thermotropic and lyotropic according to the principal means of destroying the order in the parent solid state, probably thermotropic LC is the most widely studied category. Thermotropic LCs are formed by varying the temperature of the compounds and can be further classified as nematic (N) and smectic (S m ) structures [2,3].Since 1974, a number of studies have been centred on liquid crystalline materials with anisotropic properties. In particular, nematic LC materials based on Schiff base core have attracted considerable interest due to their unique solvent properties and potential applications in gas chromatography [4,5,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].Increasing attention has been focused on important pollutants and phenols introduced into the environment through the discharge of industrial waste and the decomposition of various pesticides and herbicides [5][6][7]. The determination of substituted phenol isomers by ordinary stationary phases presents some difficulties, since these isomers have similar boiling points and polarities.A stationary phase able to separate on a basis other than boiling point or polarity is essential. Several studies have centred on liquid crystalline