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US 7,622,165 B2Granted
Liquid-crystalline medium
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsMichael Wittek, Lars Lietzau
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Abstract
Disclosed are a liquid-crystalline medium, which contains one or more compounds of formula I their use for electro-optical purposes, to displays containing this medium, and to novel LC compounds for use in LC media and displays.
Claims10
A liquid-crystalline medium, comprising
- A) 2-40% by weight one or more compounds of formula I,
- in which
- R0 denotes a halogenated or unsubstituted alkyl or alkoxy radical having 1 to 15 C atoms, in which one or more CH2 groups are optionally each, independently of one another, replaced by —C≡C—,
- in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another,
- X0 denotes F, Cl, ON, SF5, SCN, NCS, a halogenated alkyl radical, a halogenated alkenyl radical, a halogenated alkoxy radical or a halogenated alkenyloxy radical having up to 6 C atoms, and
- Y1 and Y2 each, independently of one another, denote H or F, and
- each, independently of one another, denote
- where at least one of
- denotes
- B) 20-90% by weight one or more compounds of formula II,
- in which A, R0, X0, Y1 and Y2 have the meanings indicated for formula I:
- C) 2-30% by weight one or more compounds of formula III,
- in which R0, X0, Y1 and Y2 have the meanings indicated for formula I, and Y3 and Y4 each, independently of one another, denote H or F;
- D) optionally 2-30% by weight one or more compounds of formula IV,
- in which R0, X0, Y1 and Y2 have the meanings indicated for formula I,
- E) optionally 2-30% by weight one or more compounds of formulae IX-XII,
- in which X0 has the meaning indicated for formula I,
- L
- denotes H or F,
- “alkyl”
- denotes C1-7-alkyl,
- R′
- denotes C1-7-alkyl, C1-6-alkoxy or C2-7-alkenyl,
- and
- “alkenyl” and
- each, independently of one another, denote
- “alkenyl*”
- C2-7-alkenyl
- and
- F) optionally 4-30% by weight one or more compounds of formula XIV
- in which R1 and R2 each, independently of one another, denote n-alkyl, alkoxy, oxaalkyl, fluoroalkyl or alkenyl, each having up to 9 C atoms.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.