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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1994
Michael D Wand, Boulder, CO (US);
Kundalika M More, Denver, CO (US);
William N Thurmes, Longmont, CO (US);
Displaytech, Inc., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
This invention provides chiral nonracemic compounds of formula ##STR1## wherein * indicates a chiral carbon, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, independently of one another, can be an alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group wherein one or more non-neighboring CH.sub.2 groups can be replaced with an O, S or a silyl group (R.sub.A SiR.sub.B) wherein R.sub.A and R.sub.B, independently of one another, are alkyl or alkenyl having from one to six carbon atoms; R.sub.1 having from about 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and R.sub.2 having from 1 to about 18 carbon atoms; X is O, S, CO, COO, OCO, COS or a single bond where Ar is a liquid crystal core moiety having two or three aromatic rings of the formula