The invention relates to a liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal display element and a liquid crystal display comprising the liquid crystal composition, belonging to the field of liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal composition of the present disclosure comprises a compound represented by formula I and one or more compounds represented by formula II. The liquid crystal composition can increase the dielectric anisotropy and improve the voltage retention rate.

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A liquid crystal composition, and a liquid crystal display element or liquid crystal display comprising the liquid crystal composition, and belongs to the field of liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal composition comprises a compound represented by formula I, a compound represented by formula II, one or more compounds represented by formula III, and at least one polymerizable compound. The liquid crystal composition has a higher clearing point (CP), a large K value, a suitable optical anisotropy (Δn), and a fast response speed. ##STR00001##

The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having a nematic phase comprising one or more compounds of formula X

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wherein the parameters have the meaning given in the text, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type and to the use of the compounds of formula X for improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds, as well as to the compounds of formula X.

The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium and to the use thereof for an active-matrix display, in particular based on the VA, PSA, PS-VA, PM-VA, SS-VA, PALC, IPS, PS-IPS, FFS or PS-FFS effect.

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in which groups and parameters that occur have the definitions given in the disclosure. Preparation methods for these compounds. Uses of the compounds as components in liquid-crystalline media. Electrooptical display elements comprising the liquid-crystalline media.

Disclosed are a liquid crystal (LC) medium containing a polymerisable compound, a process for its preparation, its use for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in an LC display of the polymer sustained alignment (PSA) type, and to an LC display, especially a PSA display.

The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device including a pair of a substrate arranged opposite to each other, an electrode group disposed on one side or both sides of the pair of substrates facing each other, a plurality of active devices connected to the electrode group, a liquid crystal alignment film disposed on each facing side of the pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, wherein the liquid crystal alignment film is manufactured by irradiating linearly polarized light to a film obtained from polyamic acid or a derivative thereof having a photoisomerization structure in the main chain or a film being subject to heat-baking so as to provide alignment-controlling capability, and the liquid crystal layer is a liquid crystal composition having negative (−) dielectric anisotropy. By the present invention, a liquid crystal display device having improved image sticking characteristics and good alignment stability is provided.

An optical film includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer formed in a stripe-shaped pattern in which an optically anisotropic region having optical anisotropy and an optically isotropic region having optical isotropy are alternately disposed, a helical axis of a cholesteric liquid crystal in the optically anisotropic region is oriented in one axial direction tin a plane of the optical film, and the helical axis is oriented in a normal direction t of a boundary surface between the optically anisotropic region and the optically isotropic region.

The present invention relates to a compound of the general formula I

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in which the occurring groups and parameters have the meanings indicated in claim 1, to the use thereof in liquid-crystalline or mesogenic media and to liquid-crystalline or mesogenic media comprising these derivatives.

The present invention provides a novel method for producing an ester group-containing compound and a derivative produced using the compound as a synthetic intermediate. The invention also provides a polymerizable composition containing the compound obtained by the production method and a film-shaped polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable composition. The present invention is a method for producing an ester group-containing compound, the method including a mixing step of mixing a condensing agent, a Bronsted acid, a carboxylic acid, and a phenol or an alcohol to prepare a reaction mixture. The Bronsted acid selected is other than the condensing agent, the carboxylic acid, and the phenol.