Dic Corporation

Junichi Mamiya

Masahiro Horiguchi

Yuichi Inoue

Junko Yamamoto

Masaomi Kimura

Tatsufumi Yamazaki

Masanao Hayashi

Sayaka Nose

Yoshio Aoki

Akihiro Koiso

Daiki Noro

Hirokazu Sugiyama

Yoshitaka Saito

Toru Tsuruta

Yuji Ohashi

An object of the present invention is to provide a dye compound-containing liquid crystal composition that has high solubility and high solubility retention for the dye compound and has high light resistance and a device including the composition. The use of a combination of one or two or more predetermined alkenyl compounds and a compound including a predetermined difluoro structure can provide a dye compound-containing liquid crystal composition that has high solubility and high solubility retention for the dye compound and has high light resistance, and the dye compound-containing liquid crystal composition is useful for devices, in particular, photochromic devices.

Dye compound-containing liquid crystal composition and device including the same

The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition, containing: one kind or two or more kinds of a first monomer having a first mesogenic skeleton, at least one polymerizable group represented by the general formula (PG1) linked to the first mesogenic skeleton, and at least one polar group linked to the mesogenic skeleton or the polymerizable group; and one kind or two or more kinds of a second monomer having a second mesogenic skeleton and a polymerizable group represented by the general formula (PG2) linked to the second mesogenic skeleton, and having a chemical structure different from that of the first monomer, in an amount of more than 0.4% by mass, which is excellent in vertical alignment, burn-in characteristics (change with time of pretilt angle), and compatibility, and provides a liquid crystal display element using the liquid crystal composition.

Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display element

A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition excellent in vertical alignment and compatibility and to provide a liquid crystal display device produced using the same. The problem is solved by a liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more kinds of self-aligning polymerizable monomers and one or two or more kinds of polymerizable monomers (or polymerizable compounds) having a specific chemical structure, and a liquid crystal display device produced using the same, specifically a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I) and a spontaneously aligning monomer which has a chemical structure different from that of the polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I), and has a polar group, and a liquid crystal display device containing the same.

Polymerizable monomer, liquid crystal composition using polymerizable monomer, and liquid crystal display device

The polymerizable liquid crystal compound has reverse wavelength dispersion or low wavelength dispersion and has high solubility in various solvents. The polymerizable liquid crystal compound provides an optically anisotropic body having high adhesiveness to substrates (or alignment films), by adding the polymerizable liquid crystal compound to a polymerizable composition and polymerizing the polymerizable composition using ultraviolet light. The invention provides a polymerizable composition containing the polymerizable liquid crystal compound having reverse wavelength dispersion or low wavelength dispersion, a polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable composition, and an optically anisotropic body using the polymer. The present invention provides a polymerizable low wavelength dispersion or polymerizable reverse wavelength dispersion compound having in the molecule a partial structure represented by the general formula (AO-1); and also provides a composition containing the compound, a polymer obtained by polymerizing the composition, and an optically anisotropic body and the like using the polymer. 

Polymerizable compound and optically anisotropic body

The present invention provides a novel method for producing a 2-hydrazinobenzothiazole derivative. The present invention also provides a method for producing a compound by using the 2-hydrazinobenzothiazole derivative obtained by the production method, and a composition that contains the compound. The present invention also provides a polymerizable composition that is useful in producing film-shaped polymers and contains the compound obtained by the production method. The invention of the present application provides a method for producing a compound represented by general formula (I-C), the method including a step of reacting a compound represented by general formula (I-B) with a compound represented by general formula (I-A) in the presence of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of metal amides, metal hydrides, metal alkoxides, and organic alkali metals. A compound derived from the compound produced by the production method, and a composition that contains the compound are also provided.

Method for producing 2-hydrazinobenzothiazole derivative

The polymerizable compound has a hydrazone moiety. The present invention also provides a polymerizable composition in which discoloration and reduction of aligning property do not easily occur. Furthermore, the present invention provides a polymer obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable composition containing a compound obtained by the production method and an optically anisotropic body using the polymer. The present invention provides a method for producing a polymerizable compound including a step of reacting a compound represented by General Formula (I-B-a) with a compound represented by General Formula (I-B-b) to obtain a compound represented by General Formula (I-C), and provides a composition which contains a compound obtained by this production method.

Method for producing polymerizable compound

It is an object of the present invention to provide a polymerizable compound having a good liquid crystal property, a good alignment property, sufficient solubility in solvents, high preservation stability in a solution state, and high optical stability; a composition including the polymerizable compound; a polymer produced by polymerizing the polymerizable compound, such as a resin produced using the polymerizable compound; an optically anisotropic body including the polymer; and a liquid crystal display element and an organic EL device that include the optically anisotropic body. As a result of conducting intensive studies in order to achieve the above object, the compound represented by General Formula (I) is developed.

Polymerizable compound, composition, polymer, optically anisotropic body, liquid crystal display element, and organic EL display

The present invention provides a compound represented by the general formula (I), and a polymerizable composition containing the compound. When the polymerizable composition containing the compound represented by the formula (I) is used to form a filmy product, the resulting filmy product exhibits less change over time in phase difference and reverse wavelength dispersion and when the filmy polymer is irradiated with UV light, peeling from a substrate is unlikely to be caused. Further, the invention provides a polymer obtained through polymerization of the polymerizable composition and an optically anisotropic body obtained using the polymer.

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