The present invention provides a composition for forming a
liquid crystal layer from which a
liquid crystal display device hardly generating image sticking can be obtained. The composition for forming a
liquid crystal layer according to the present invention contains a liquid
crystal material and one or two or more monomers, wherein at least one of the monomers is a
phenanthrene derivative represented by the following
chemical formula (1):the following
chemical formula (2):or the following
chemical formula (3):wherein R1 and R2 are identical or different, and each denote an -Sp-P group, a
hydrogen atom, a
halogen atom, a —
CN group, a —NO2 group, a —NCO group, a —NCS group, an —OCN group, a —SCN group, a —SF5 group, or a straight-chain or branched-chain
alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; at least one of R1 and R2 denotes an -Sp-P group; P denotes a polymerizable group; Sp denotes a straight-chain, branched-chain or cyclic alkylene group or alkyleneoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a direct bond of both groups interposing Sp; a
hydrogen atom which R1 and R2 have may be replaced by a
fluorine atom or a
chlorine atom; and a —CH2— group which R1 and R2 have, unless
oxygen atoms,
sulfur atoms and
nitrogen atoms are mutually adjacent, may be substituted with an —O— group, a —S— group, a —NH— group, a —CO— group, a —COO— group, a —OCO— group, an —O—COO— group, a —OCH2— group, a —CH2O— group, a —SCH2— group, a —CH2S— group, a —N(CH3)— group, a —N(C2H5)— group, a —N(C3H7)— group, a —N(C4H5)— group, a —CF2O— group, a —OCF2— group, a —CF2S— group, a —SCF2— group, a —N(CF3)— group, a —CH2CH2— group, a —CF2CH2— group, a —CH2CF2— group, a —CF2CF2— group, a —CH═CH— group, a —CF═CF— group, a —C≡C— group, a —CH═CH—COO— group, or a —OCO—CH═CH— group.