Abstract: Electrically conductive polymers containing repeat units derived from five-membered aromatic heterocyclic monomers substituted, in the 3 position relative to the heteroatom, by an ether-type substituent linked to the heterocyclic ring by an alkylene radical containing at least two carbon atoms. The invention also relates to certain monomers enabling the above-mentioned conductive polymers to be obtained.

Abstract: A poly[(3-pyrrolyl)acetic acid] is here disclosed which is represented by the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein n is an integer of 2 or more. This polymer can be prepared by subjecting (3-pyrrolyl)acetic acid to electrolytic oxidation polymerization in the presence or absence of a salt. The polymer can be used as a pH sensor in which electrical properties change in accordance with a pH. Furthermore, it can also be used as electrodes for a secondary battery in which a cation transport electrolyte is used.

Abstract: Substituted thiophenes of the general formula: ##STR1## in which: R represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an aliphatic group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms,X represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom,Y represents an at least partially fluorinated aliphatic or aromatic group,m represents an integer equal to or greater than 2, andn represents an integer such that 0.ltoreq.n.ltoreq.7.The invention also relates to the electrically conducting polymers containing recurring units derived from monomers chosen from the substituted thiophenes.

Abstract: There is provided a 3-substituted polypyrrole represented by the general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, m is an integer of from 1 to 20, and n is an integer of 2 or more.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is mainly an electrically conductive polymer containing repeated units derived from 3-alkythiophenes in which the alkyl substituent contains from six to nine carbon atoms.The invention also relates to a process for manufacturing these polymers and to electroconductive devices containing them.

Abstract: The invention relates to electrochemical devices and in particular energy storage devices.The object of the invention is the use in such devices of at least one conductive support, covered by a polymer film, obtained by electrochemical polymerization of at least one monomer having at least one aromatic heterocycle with five links containing a single heteroatom, the polymer being in accordance with the general formula: (M.sup.+ X.sup.- y)n. The basic monomer is a pyrrole, thiophene, furan or indole and is substituted by at least one group of the alkyl, alkoxyl, hydroxyl aryl, substituted aryl, halogen, methyl trihalide, cyano, amino or dialkylamino type.

Abstract: The invention relates to the elaboration of an electrode comprising an electrochrome polymer.The invention provides an electrode coated with a polymer film obtained by electrochemical polymerization of a monomer M, said polymer corresponding to the general formula (M.sup.+ X.sup.- y)n where X.sup.- represents an anion coming from the electrolyte used for the polymerization, the monomer being either a substituted aromatic heterocycle with 5 links containing a single hetero-atom, or an indole substituted on the phenyl nucleus, the substitutions being possibly groups of the alkyl, alkoxyl, hydroxyl, aryl, substituted aryl, halogene, trihalogenomethyl, cyano, amino or dialkylamino type.

Abstract: The invention relates to spiropyran compounds. They have the general formula (I): ##STR1## in which: X represents the CH.sub.2 group or a sulfur atom; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represent electron donor and/or acceptor groups selected for instance from the group NO.sub.2, COC.sub.6 H.sub.5, CN, the halogens, the acyl substituents, alkoxy substituents, the hydrogen atom, the alkyl and mercaptoalkyl groups, the ethers of the formula CH.sub.2 OR, thioethers of the formula CH.sub.2 SR and amines of the formula CH.sub.2 NR.sub.2 in which R represents an alkyl group; R.sub.3 is a linear or branched alkyl group, having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, or an arylalkyl or alkenyl group.--R.sub.4,R.sub.5,R.sub.6,R.sub.7,R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 have one of the meanings indicated for R.sub.3 or represent, two by two, with the group in ortho position, a --(CH.sub.2).sub.n -- group in which n is a number between 5 and 10.R.sub.10 represents a hydrogen atom if X=S and if X=CH.sub.