Composition and support material comprising poly(9,9'-spiro-bisfluorenes)

US6132641A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Vantico Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ralf-Roman Rietz · Kobe, JP
• Wolfgang Wernet · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 29, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 17, 2000
• Expiry date: May 29, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S428/917
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Soluble poly(bis-9,9'-fluorenes) comprise identical or different structural repeating units of the formula I, ##STR1## where the two R.sub.1 s are, independently of one another, H, C.sub.1-C.sub.18 alkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.14 aryl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.15 aralkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkoxy, R.sub.2 --(O--C.sub.n H.sub.2n).sub.m --O--, C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkylthio, C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 dialkylamino, --C(O)OH, --C(O)O-C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl, --C(O)--N(C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl).sub.2, --SO.sub.3 H, --SO.sub.3 -C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl, --SO.sub.2 --N(C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl).sub.2, C.sub.1 -C.sub.17 -alkyl-C(O)--O-- or C.sub.1 -C.sub.17 alkyl-C(O)--, R.sub.2 is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl, n is from 2 to 6 and m is from 1 to 12. The polymers can be used either alone or in admixture with at least one additional fluorophore whose absorption band overlaps the emission band (fluorescent emission) of the polymer of the formula I as active radiative layer for light-emitting diodes, VDUs and display elements.