Pentafluorosulfanyl-substituted thienothiophene monomers and conducting polymers

US7094365B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Steffen Zahn · Pennsburg, US
• Andrew F. Nordquist · Radnor, US
• Kristen Elaine Minnich · Allentown, US
• Gauri Sankar Lal · Whitehall, US
• William F. Burgoyne, Jr. · Allentown, US
• Axel Klauck-Jacobs · Whitehall, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 4, 2004
• Grant date: Aug 22, 2006
• Expiry date: Oct 4, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01B1/127
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Thienothiophene monomers having an SF5 group and conducting oligomers and polymers formed by the polymerization of such monomers and their use as hole injection materials, charge transport materials, or as semiconductors. The compound may be of the formula:where X and X′ are independently H, halogen atoms (e.g., F, Cl, Br, and I), MgCl, MgBr, MgI, Sn(R′)3, where R′ is C1-6 alkyl or —OC1-6 alkyl, boronic acid, boronic ester, —CH═CHR″ (where R″ is H or C1-6 alkyl), —OC1-6 alkyl, —COOC1-6 alkyl, —S—COR′″ and —COR′″ (where R′″ is H or C1-6 alkyl), —C≡CH, or polymerizable aromatic rings (such as phenyl, naphthalene, pyrrole, dithiophene, thienothiophene, thiophene and so forth.