Mesogen-Jacketed liquid crystalline polymers were synthesized in various chiral conditions using 1) (-)-menthol as a reaction solvent (additive)

2) (-)-dimenthyl peroxydicarbonate as a chiral free radical initiator

3) menthyl methacrylate as a comonomer for copolymerization

4) (-)-sparteine-fluorenyllithium as a chiral anionic initiator and 5) a chiral monomer.In the polymerization using a chiral initiator or a chiral solvent

the helix-sense-selection was not found.In the case of the copolymerization

the chiral monomeric unit incorporated into the polymer chain was found to induce liquid crystallinity.Chiral mesogen-Jacketed polymer was also synthesized from chiral monomer 5.However

this polymer did not form a liquid crystal phase although it met the model of Mesogen-Jacketed liquid crystalline polymers.