Patent number: 5204019
Abstract: 4-Q.sup.1 -4'-Q.sup.2 -2,3-Difluorobiphenyls whereinQ.sup.1 and Q.sup.2 independently of one another are each R or R-A.sup.1 -A.sup.2 -Z in whichR (sic) alkyl having 1-15 C atoms or alkenyl having 3-15 C atoms each of which is unsubstituted or monosubstituted by cyano or at least monosubstituted by fluorine or chlorine, and in which in each case one or two non-adjacent CH.sub.2 groups can also be replaced by --O--, --CO--, --O--CO, --CO--O-- or --O--COO--, (sic) --COO--, --O--CO--, --CH.sub.2 O, --O--CH.sub.2 --, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 -- or a single bond, andA.sup.1 and A.sup.2 independently of one another . . (sic) each 1,4-phenylene which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or two fluorine atoms, and in which one or two CH groups can also be replaced by N, or trans-1,4-cyclohexylene wherein one or two non-adjacent CH.sub.2 groups can also be replaced by --O--, and one of the two groups A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 can also be a single bond,subject to the proviso that Z is --CO--O, --O--CO--, --CH.sub.2 O--, --OCH.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 15, 1989
Date of Patent:
April 20, 1993
Assignee:
Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung
Inventors:
Volker Reiffenrath, Joachim Krause, Andreas Wachtler, Georg Weber, Ulrich Finkenzeller, David Coates, Ian C. Sage, Simon Greenfield, George W. Gray, Michael Hird, David Lacey, Kenneth J. Toyne
Patent number: 5093026
Abstract: Biphenylylethanes of the formula I,R.sup.1 --CH.sub.2 --X--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2).sub.m --Ph--Ph--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --Ph--Y--CH.sub.2 --R.sup.2 Iin whichR.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each, independently of one another, alkyl, alkenyl or oxaalkyl having up to 12 C atoms, and one of the radicals R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is alternatively H,m is 0 or 1,X and Y are each, independently of one another, O, S, CO--O, O--CO, O--CO--O or a single bond, the radical X is alternatively 1,4-phenylene or trans-1,4-cyclohexylene, and the radical Y is alternatively trans-1,4-cyclohexylene, andis 1,4-phenylene, and one or two of the radicals Ph is alternatively 2- or 3-fluoro-1,4-phenylene,with the proviso that, in the case (a) where X=1,4-phenylene and m=1, one or two of the radicals Ph are 2- or 3-fluoro-1,4-phenylene, and (b) in the case where X=trans-1,4-cyclohexylene, m=0 and one or two of the radicals Ph are 2- or 3-fluoro-1,4-phenylene, are suitable as components of liquid-crystalline phases.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 2, 1990
Date of Patent:
March 3, 1992
Assignee:
Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
Inventors:
David I. Bishop, Stephen Lewis, David Coates, Simon Greenfield, Eike Poetsch, Volker Meyer, Klaus P. Stahl, Volker Reiffenrath, Herbert Plach, Reinhard Hittich, Andreas Wachtler