LIQUID CRYSTALLINE MALEIMIDE COMPOUND, COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME, AND OPTICAL ISOMER PRODUCED BY USING THE COMPOSITION

• Main Author: YOKOSHIMA MINORU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.05.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH ISMODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THEDEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY,COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g.SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING; DYES; FREQUENCY-CHANGING; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FORELSEWHERE; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL RESINS; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PAINTS; PHYSICS; POLISHES; TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a liquid crystalline maleimide compound having excellent photopolymerizability without using a photopolymerization initiator and giving an optical isomer having excellent uniformity of orientation and film thickness and suitable for a phase difference film, or the like, and to obtain a composition containing the compound. SOLUTION: A liquid crystal composition contains the liquid crystalline maleimide compound (A) having at least one maleimide group and a liquid crystalline group in one molecule and exhibits liquid crystal phase. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO