Trifluorotoluene compounds, and a liquid crystalline medium

US5292454A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Merck Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Adolf Kurmeier · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE
• Reinhard Hittich · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE
• Eike Poetsch · Mühltal, DE
• Volker Meyer · Groß-Zimmern, DE
• Herbert Plach · Darmstadt, DE
• David Coates · Bishop's Stortford, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 9, 1992
• Grant date: Mar 8, 1994
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C2601/14
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Trifluorotoluene compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which n is 1 to 12, and Q is ##STR2## are suitable as components of liquid-crystalline media.