The present invention relates to materials used for aligning liquid crystals of liquid crystal display elements and to a polymer for use in liquid crystal vertical alignment layer used in producing a liquid crystal vertical alignment layer.
The polymer for use in a liquid crystal vertical alignment layer includes (a) a moiety that is photochemically isomerizable but not photochemically crosslinked, (b) a moiety that is photochemically crosslinkable, and (c) a moiety that stabilizes a vertical alignment. The polymer can be used to produce a vertical alignment layer that has a liquid crystal alignment property enabling control of alignment at a low UV dose and that offers a large pretilt angle and superior optical stability.
of α,β-unsaturated methyl ketone/nitro compounds from benzylic amines through an oxidation–aldol/Henry reaction is reported. The reaction proceeded well by using MCPBA as oxidant and CuCl2·2H2O as catalyst. A variety of functionalized α,β-unsaturated methyl ketone/nitro compounds were assembled in moderate yields by application of this catalytic one-pot reaction.