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US 8,687,259 B2Granted
Polymerisable LC material and polymer film with negative optical dispersion
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsKevin Adlem, Owain Llyr Parri, David Wilkes, Patricia Eileen Saxton
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Abstract
The invention relates to a polymerizable LC material with negative optical dispersion, a polymer film with negative optical dispersion obtainable from such a material, and the use of the polymerizable LC material and polymer film in optical, electrooptical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.
Claims21
Polymerisable LC material comprising from 1 to 45% of one or more compounds of formula I
- wherein
- U1,2 are independently of each other selected from
- including their mirror images, wherein the rings U1 and U2 are each bonded to the central bitolane group via the axial bond, and one or two non-adjacent CH2 groups in these rings are optionally replaced by O and/or S, and the rings U1 and U2 are optionally substituted by one or more groups L,
- Q1,2 are independently of each other CH or SiH,
- Q3 is C or Si,
- A1-4 are independently of each other selected from non-aromatic carbocylic or heterocyclic groups and aromatic or heteroaromatic groups, which are optionally substituted by one or more groups R5, and wherein each of -(A1-Z1)m—U1—(Z2-A2)n- and -(A3-Z3)o—U2—(Z4-A4)p- does not contain more aromatic groups than non-aromatic groups,
- Z1-4 are independently of each other —O—, —S—, —CO—, —COO—, —OCO—, —O—COO—, —CO—NR0—, —NR0—CO—, —NR0—CO—NR0—, —OCH2—, —CH2O—, —SCH2—, —CH2S—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CF2S—, —SCF2—, —CH2CH2—, —(CH2)3—, —(CH2)4—, —CF2CH2—, —CH2CF2—, —CF2CF2—, —CH═CH—, —CY1═CY2—, —CH═N—, —N═CH—, —N═N—, —CH═CR0—, —C≡C—, —CH═CH—COO—, —OCO—CH═CH—, CR0R00 or a single bond,
- Y1,2 are independently of each other H, F, Cl, CN or R0,
- R0 and R00 are independently of each other H or alkyl with 1 to 12 C-atoms,
- m and n are independently of each other 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4,
- o and p are independently of each other 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4,
- R1-5 are independently of each other identical or different groups selected from H, halogen, —CN, —NC, —NCO, —NCS, —OCN, —SCN, —C(═O)NR0R00, —C(═O)X0, —C(═O)R0, —NH2, —NR0R00, —SH, —SR0, —SO3H, —SO2R0, —OH, —NO2, —CF3, —SF5, P-Sp-, optionally substituted silyl, or carbyl or hydrocarbyl with 1 to 40 C atoms that is optionally substituted and optionally comprises one or more hetero atoms, or denote P or P-Sp-, or are substituted by P or P-Sp-, wherein the compounds comprise at least one group R1-4 that denotes P or P-Sp- or is substituted by P or P-Sp-,
- P is a polymerisable group,
- Sp is a spacer group or a single bond, and further comprising from 50% to 99% of polymerisable mesogenic or liquid crystalline compounds different from formula I.
11 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.