Abstract: Ferroelectric liquid crystals are molecular ferroelectrics showing up in the tilted liquid crystalline systems (SmC$+*$/, SmI$+*$/, SmF$+*$/) composed of chiral molecules. In this work, we present the dielectric, electro-optic, and calorimetric studies of a single component system: 3-octyloxy-6$LB@2-fluor-4-(2-fluoroctyloxy)phenyl$RB@-pyridine showing interesting ferroelectric properties. The compound exhibits a first order N$+*$/- SmC$+*$/ phase transition which leads to a qualitatively new behavior, for instance the relaxation frequency of the soft mode below T$-C$/ seems to be temperature independent. The high frequency relaxation process, connected with the reorientation around the long axis, is practically undisturbed at the N$+*$/-SmC$+*$/ transition. Yet, it was found that in the SmC$+*$/ phase, the best fit was obatined with two Cole-Cole functions yielding two relaxation times to describe a biased reorientation of molecules in the SmC$+*$/ phase. !18
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