Indaceno derivatives as organic semiconductors

US9520565B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Merck Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Changsheng Wang · Durham, GB
• Nicolas Blouin · Darmstadt, DE
• Mansoor D'Lavari · Bude, GB
• Steven Tierney · Southampton, GB
• Lana Nanson · Southampton, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: May 30, 2012
• Grant date: Dec 13, 2016
• Expiry date: Nov 21, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P70/50
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds containing one or more dialkylidene-s-indacenodiheteroarene groups, methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, the use of the compounds, polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductor in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these compounds, polymers, blends, mixtures or formulations.