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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1993
Hitoshi Kondo, Kanagawa, JP;
Mika Tadokoro, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Sugiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshimitsu Hagiwara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Imai, Kanagawa, JP;
Mamoru Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Keisuke Itakura, Kanagawa, JP;
Takasago International Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optically active compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group having from 3 to 9 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group having from 3 to 7 carbon atoms; m and n each represent 1 or 2 provided that they do not simultaneously represent 1; and C.sup.*1 and C.sup.*2, both represent an optically active carbon atom, and a liquid crystal composition containing the same are disclosed. The compound exhibits chiral nematic and smectic phases and are excellent as a chiral dopant for ferroelectric liquid crystal compositions or nematic liquid crystal compositions.