Difluorovinyl compound, liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display

Abstract

Provided are liquid crystalline compounds having a wide liquid crystal phase temperature range, low viscosity, a large elastic constant ratio K33/K11 and excellent solubility at low temperature, a liquid crystal composition using the same and a liquid crystal display. Preferred compounds are difluorovinyl compounds represented by Formula (1): wherein Y1, represents H or a straight chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and optional —CH2— in the above alkyl group may be replaced by —O— or —CH═CH—, but —O— is not adjacent to each other, and at least one H in Y1 may be substituted with halogen or a cyano group: A1, A2, A3 and A4 each independently represent 1,4-cyclohexylene in which optional —CH2— which is not adjacent to each other may be replaced by —O—, 1,4-phenylene in which optional H may be substituted with halogen, and a single bond, in which at least two of A1, A2, A3 and A4 have the ring structure described above, and at least one of them is 1,4-cyclohexylene in which —CH2— is replaced by —O—; Z1, Z2 and Z3 each independently represent a single bond, —(CH2)2—, —CH═CH—, —(CH2)4—, —O(CH2)3— or —(CH2)3O—; n represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 10, provided that when any of A1, A2, A3 and A4 is 1,4-phenylene, Z1, Z2 and Z3 are single bonds, and among them, when A1 is 1,3-dioxane-2,5-diyl and A2 is 1,4-phenylene and when A3 is 1,4-cyclohexylene and A4 is a single bond, Y1 is H, and n is not 0.

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