Liquid crystal high molecular material

Claim 1

A liquid crystal high molecular weight material comprising the hydrogen bonded product of a non-liquid crystalline polymer having proton transfer functionality selected from a group consisting of polyacrylic acid, polymethacrylic acid, polyacrylate, polymethacrylate, polyacrylamide, polyvinyl alcohol and its partial hydrolysis, and polyvinyl acetate, the polymerization degree of the polymer being 10-10,000; and a low molecular weight compound having the formula A--X--Y--Z, which has proton transfer functionality opposite to and reactive with the proton transfer functionality of said polymer, to produce hydrogen bending, said low molecular weight compound being at least one compound having a terminal group A having a proton donor and/or a proton acceptor selected from: ##STR38## a cyclic group X selected from: ##STR39## ##STR40## wherein k represents and integer of about 1 or 2, a bridging group Y selected from --O--, --COO--, --OCO--, --CO--S--, --CH═C(CN)--, --CH═CH-- and --CO--CH 2 --, and a chiral terminal group Z represented by the following formula: ##STR41## wherein R represents a lower alkyl group, a halogen atom or a nitrile group, m represents an integer of 0-5 and n represents 0 or 1, the number of proton transfer functional groups of the low molecular weight compounds being about the same as the number of proton transfer functional groups of the non-liquid crystalline polymer.