Chiral oxiranylmethyl ethers, and their use as dopants in liquid-crystal mixtures

US5707545A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hubert Schlosser · Hofheim, DE
• Rainer Wingen · Hattersheim, DE
• Anke Kaltbeitzel
• Javier Manero · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 24, 1994
• Grant date: Jan 13, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 24, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C09K2323/031
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Novel oxiranylmethyl ethers can advantageously be employed in liquid-crystal mixtures since they have high spontaneous-polarization values and features in their molecular structure which make them miscible with other components of liquid-crystal systems.